BIOL 1440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: George Carlin
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Proposition: at the root of the ecological crisis is our storyit is about who we are and why we are here . The story that our culture tells us about success : to be successful in america i need to be motivated, to be successful in america i need to have money, to be successful in america i need to have connections. We have this thing in our culture about being busy . It"s not ok to rest unless i"ve earned it. Story: 1400s earth at the center of the universe. Galileo a new way of seeing gave us a new story. Figured out that we are not the center! Manifest destiny americans had a virtue-bound duty to tame the west, creating a heaven on earth. Native americans living in a different story . I understand that it is just money, but unfortunately money runs the world.
