Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi

In The Wild, life is transformed into new life through what some- times appear to be the violent processes of death, and in doing so adds to the complex diversity and health of the Great Web of Life. [...] The coming chapters are a plea to everyone who wants peace – one that broadens its parameters to include the Great Web of Life – to unite in solidarity, to respect each other’s calling and to appreciate that everyone has a unique role to play in defending animate Life from both the spirit and the apparatus of The Machine. [...] We preserve the so-called peace of our community by deeds of petty violence every day.”18 As long as there are laws and economic systems designed to line the pockets of the few to the utter devastation of the rest of Life, there will be a desperate necessity for people to break them both. [...] It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”21 If you believe that industrial civilization is the zenith of human endeavor, if the strength of your connection to the World Wide Web is genuinely more important to you than the depth of your connection to the animate world of Life, or if you cherish your belongings over a sense of belonging, then I would recommend you p [...] After totting up the sum of its parts – the heart, the hands, the eyes – on their calculators, they came up with the figure of $12.98.25 It is not the measly figure here – which adjusted for inflation would come to just over $56 at the time of writing – that is comical in its absurdity, but the audacity that one could reduce any human life to a financial calculation, and that a person’s worth is n