I am denied the need to "feel" for the environment as an academic and researcher. But I believe the only way of experiencing is through feeling. Not a touchy-feely kind of feeling, but just experience as an emotional activity and emotions as the fundamental manner of experiencing. Science is often portrayed as being neutral and emotionless. The acts of observation and experimentation supposedly performed as being purely fuction, goal, and data acquisition based. A distinct segregation has been created between the "feeling" activists and the "neutral" scientists. A most facetious assumption on our part to accept such a dualism. As I understand David Hume and John Dewey, the fundamental way of being in this world is through experience and this experience simultaneously occurs with emotional activity. Emotional actions and reactions are embedded everywhere, in the way of things. Thus as I approach the topic of ecological issues, do not mistake me for a scientist nor an activist. I am here to introspect and reflect on the environment as it affects me. I am but a poorly assembled reflection of everything around me.Welcome to emotional landscapes.
So what am I doing here? I am trying to learn how to be in the world without doing very much. I am not really trying to understand anything or convey anything. I am hoping to portray as clearly as possible, the stories of hopelessness, death, and destruction as I cross paths with them. I am hoping to describe my feelings of closeness with animals, the forests, decomposers, and phytoplankton. I am hoping to give you glimpses of hope of people trying to make their lives more profound by living simply. Communities that care. That hope is however not yours and will never be adequate to make you or me feel comfortable. As I proceed on an exploration, I hope to live truly in what is an uncomfortable existence. But I must talk of technical matters and so here they are. I have decided to take a break from my PhD in Environmental Philosophy to do some non-academic Environmental Philosophy. I begin now on a journey that has no beginning or end but exists really as a path that I chose to walk on. I explore without wanting to find anything, and I travel without any particular destination in mind. I hope to learn the way of things without really understanding what hope is. I begin on earth in a country called India. I'll see you in Mars at the end of my journey. I am kidding only!
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Emerging from my shell
I find this empty space Where have you gone? Lost in this chase… I look around at this Uninspiring landscape Imbalanced landscape Exclusive landscape Surrounded by loss Rape and desertification Excess and over-consumption Greed and self-absorption Who can tell me who I am? Who will show me where to go? What will lead me ahead? What will take away my dread? Where have you gone? Am I just a lost species? In this forest I was lost And now I am found |
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