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Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

Bioregionalism and the Reinhabitation of Place with Mark Gonnerman

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

Robert Harrison

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8589 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A conversation about bioregionalism and reinhabitation with Mark Gonnerman, author of “A Sense of the Whole: Reading Gary Snyder.” Songs in this episode: “Comin’ Back to Me” by Jefferson Airplane and “Dear Mother Earth” by Canned Heat. PLEASE NOTE: In his introduction, Professor Robert Harrison misattributes the following passage to Gary Snyder: “reinhabitation means learning to […]

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0:00.0

This is entitled Opinions coming to you from the studios of KZSU on the Stanford campus.

0:15.8

As he descends from his mountaintop, Zarathruster arrives to a city at the edge of the forest and enters its marketplace.

0:24.5

It's a modern city, and that means it's all a marketplace.

0:29.3

There he begins to preach to the people, I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth.

0:36.1

To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing.

0:40.3

He goes on to declare,

0:43.3

The overman is the meaning of the earth.

0:46.3

Let your will say, the overman shall be the meaning of the earth.

0:52.3

Nietzsche's overman goes over by going under.

0:58.0

I love those who do not know how to live except by going under,

1:02.0

for they are the ones who cross over.

1:05.0

Translation, the meaning of the earth lies beneath our feet.

1:10.0

The overman does not hanker after the elsewhere or the far off, but rediscoveres the ground

1:16.6

that he stands on, the ground of our mortal sojourn on this wandering planet we call Earth.

1:24.6

When the poet Gary Snyder wrote, The most radical thing you can do is stay home.

1:30.3

He meant radical in the etymological sense of radics,

1:34.3

the Latin word for root.

1:36.3

The radical is rooted.

1:39.3

In the Oaxaca region of Mexico,

1:43.3

farmers and weavers today talk about the

1:47.0

Derecho de no migra, the right not to migrate, the right to roots.

1:55.0

Those inhabitants of the land, those radicals, along with all the indigenous peoples of America, hear the call of the overman,

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