{"id":6667,"date":"2013-04-22T12:52:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T17:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2013-04-22T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T18:01:50","slug":"dark-earth-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/04\/22\/dark-earth-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark earth days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Composing a worthwhile Earth Day post takes more energy than I have today, so instead I’ll link to Jeremy’s Earth<\/a> post at Struggle Forever!<\/a>\u00a0 It articulates a thought I often feel on this day (surrounded as I get by students eager to maternalize the planet) but in a way that resonates with the weirdness of the last week, with its bombs, explosions, and highly mediated manhunts.<\/p>\n

A few snippets:<\/p>\n

The Earth is not your mother . . . S\/h\/it is a monstrous assemblage . . . Earth Day is a dark holiday. \u00a0It is a reminder, not of the beauty of nature or the miracle of life, but of the horrors that we have wrought upon the rocky surface of this planet . . .<\/p>\n

And the picture says a great deal:<\/p>\n

\"Earth_at_Night\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(That sun seems so close, yet so far away, so… cold.)<\/p>\n

Read the whole piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[And somehow laterally related:] For a glimpse into one kind of weird darkness circulating within last week’s messiness, see Charles Cameron’s series of analytical posts at zenpundit, beginning with this one on the “end times videos”<\/a> liked by Tamerlan Tsarnaev. End times beliefs are a dime a dozen — I have my favorites among them — but the ones circulating at the outer edges of the monotheistic solar\/belief system can be among the more deadly kinds, and anything that helps understand their allure is useful.<\/p>\n

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