His presentation was both witty and humorous, demonstrating a wide and free ranging wisdom, as well as a decent grasp of the work of many prominent authors. Often spontaneously wandering off in all directions, he most usually navigated the crowd back to where he left off. Usually, and this is a matter of opinion.
For a critique of his presentation, and a fair amount of comments, many having to do with the question of violence can be found at:
Portland Indymedia
In this presentation,Derrick Jensen, discussed the book upon which he is presently working, a book on how to take down civilization. "One of the first rules of any propagandist is, what you want to do is, slide your premisses by people, If you can slide your premisses by them, you've got them.......so what I'm doing in my new book is, I'm going through and putting my premisses in bold face, I don't want to slide them by people, I want to make them as explicit as posible so we can have this discussion."
Derrick enumerates fifteen of these premisses. "The first premise of the book is that civilization is not and can never be sustainable." Premise number two is that traditional communities do not of their own volition give up or sell the land and resources upon which their community is based. Three is that our way of life is based, requires, widespread violence.
The entire talk is woven around these 15 premisses. Due to the length of his remarks, I have broken them up into three segments. This first segment is 23 minutes in length.
Derrick Jensen, Part 1
This second segment begins with the fourth premise, which is "that civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy." This segment is 29 minutes in length.
Derrick Jensen, Part 2
The third section is 19 minutes in length. Here he goes into an interesting discussion of love and hope.
Derrick Jensen, Part 3
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