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Original Title:	Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization
ISBN:	158322730X (ISBN13: 9781583227305)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Endgame #1

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Endgame #1)

Derrick Jensen

Paperback | Pages: 495 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 2125 Users | 171 Reviews

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The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises, Jensen leaves us hoping for what may be inevitable: a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself.

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Title	:	Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Endgame #1)
Author	:	Derrick Jensen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 495 pages
Published	:	June 6th 2006 by Seven Stories Press
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Philosophy. Environment. Politics. Biology. Ecology. History

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Jensen's language can be occasionally smug/poetic, but the dude repeatedly belabors a very good point: civilization is unsustainable and killing all of us. The criticism of the book in the reviews below are either logically unsound ("some Native American tribes developed agriculture therefore the book is invalid because it claims some Native American cultures lived in tune with the land"), naive ("we shouldn't let billions of people die") or embarrassing ("guy smelled bad and dressed funny when

This book is bloated with sloppy writing and sloppy thinking - like the work of environmental guru Ed Abbey - but like Abbey's books, Endgame has apparently won a following among frustrated, desperate environmentalists.Jensen makes many accurate observations about the human institutions and behavior patterns that may be aggregated into the abstraction "civilization." I found nothing new here - I've been making these observations myself for decades, and I've also read much more insightful and



Well, F*ck. I originally wanted to only use a quote from this book as my review. Yet, having now finished it, I do want to add a few more words. Due to my kind nature, however, I will insert this quote as an alternative for readers not wanting to read my slightly longer critique. See below: "We're f*cked. We're so f*cked. Not in the good sense of the word."I feel this is a good summary. Now for anyone looking for a bit more information on this book please feel free to read further on.

This book is emotionally draining. It's very good, but I find the author to be frustratingly repetitive at times. He does make a lot of good points about how nonviolence is totally ineffective, so I feel like it was a good book to read after having just read How Nonviolence Protects the State.

I must admit, I share this man's sentiment, that we must move to a more natural state of being that is better on the earth. But, I don't agree in killing (allowing naturally the deaths of) billions of people to do it. If we went back to a primitive lifestyle, I would die, most of us would. I don't know how to find food in the wild, I don't know how to make the medicine to fight my chronic illness. He makes that point clear, by saying "stock up" when technology falls apart. Is that my only

Nothing else I`ve read has ever made me so generally fired up, at least not since I was 15 or so. I read it while I was working long days doing construction, which I don`t know anything about and am terrible at, so busting my thumbs with hammers and startling myself with the nail gun and trying not to cry as the guy I was working for made me all too aware of what an amateur and a fuckup I was. I was living out in a tent in the woods, but it was March, and, y`know, Canada, so it was too cold to