Ecological Romanticism

****the following is something like a manifesto. try it on.****

A biological godhead is the answer to the devouring vacuum of light and energy-- a white hole-- that science gives us, in which everything dissolves into an incandescent blaze of 'too much information'-- the existential state that has come to dominate since World War II. It is in this state that ecocatastrophe expands boundlessly.

Ecology is the necessary god-idea of our time and henceforth-- necessary because of the failure of the human species to commit itself to saving the Biosphere from humanity. Ecology is the touchstone, the foundational idea of any legitimate civilization.

Ecology-as-godhead is radically polymorphous and global-- as with the Vacuum, but with the difference that it represents the Life-organism that has evolved for billions of years on Earth, while the Vacuum has broken with it, forming a murderous machinery that can only destroy the Life-organism.

Ecological Romanticism connects the inner mythic realm of the spiritual imagination with the outer, scientific reality of all living organisms forming a whole. It is a coordination of Romanticism and Biology. It is the rich romance of Life fighting for survival against a lethal evolutionary development that threatens the whole, by using the full vitality and constitution of the human psyche toward the rescue of Life.

Nature is sacred. Ecological security is a sacred directive. Ecological Romanticism is a means to fight the threat.


****This is very different from what I usually write. It's a sort of foray in a tangential direction. It isn't a completely rational statement and I'm groping for coherence but not quite reaching it. But it's substantial, and has a useful effect, I think. It's a step toward something, which I hope I can discover.****