Columbus and Other Cannibals

The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

Introduction by Derrick Jensen
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ISBN-10 1583227814
ISBN-13 978-1-58322-781-7
Publication Date Oct 2008

Description

Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s
most influential activists for decades. Frighteningly, his radical critique of the modern “civilized” lifestyle is more relevant now than ever before.

Identifying the Western compulsion to consume the earth as a sickness, Forbes writes:

“Brutality knows no boundaries. Greed knows no limits. Perversion knows no borders. . . . These characteristics all push towards an extreme, always moving forward once the initial infection sets in. . . . This is the disease of the consuming of other creatures’ lives and possessions. I call it cannibalism.”
This updated edition includes a new chapter by the author.


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Razorcake
Mar 1, 2009
An early text that inspired the start of the anti-civilization movement...Writing from a Native American perspective, Forbes maintains a steady and humble tone throughout the text...It is the kind of
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