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A Disputational Dialogical Path to an [Im]possible Democratic Environmentalism

We find tremendous antagonism born of each group’s disdain for the other, a passionate dismissal that even could be our major obstacle to advancing. That is, each group experiences a certain type of enjoyment in their self-righteousness and their conte…

We find tremendous antagonism born of each group's disdain for the other, a passionate dismissal that even could be our major obstacle to advancing. That is, each group experiences a certain type of enjoyment in their self-righteousness and their contempt, an enjoyment that Freud called the death drive.  Its repression is what causes destructive individual symptoms in psychotherapy patients, and it is also what causes destructive symptoms in social groups. For opposing environmental groups to remain in such respective silos might be comforting in some ways, but the repression of that comfort, its not being seen but nonetheless enacted, is not worth the cost.  More

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