I’m in the process of reading again The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen. In a recent discussion with Quentin S. Crisp, I was mentioning how Derrick Jensen is more depressing than even Thomas Ligotti. The more I think about it, though, their two views do seem to resonate to a degree. Jensen is an environmentalist [...]
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