Making a Killing by Bob Torres

Author:Bob Torres [Torres, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2010-08-04T04:00:00+00:00

In An Unnatural Order:The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature, Jim Mason advances a similar analysis that looks at how humanity has gradually come to a vision that entails a “conquest” of nature.46 Though Mason’s analysis is different than Bookchin’s in a number of ways, Mason also identifies a strain of what he calls “dominionism” over the natural world that is rooted in the vast traditions of our contemporary society—including Christianity, the conquest of the New World, and the Enlightenment. Considering animals a part of nature, Mason coins the term “misothery” to convey the vast hatred of the animal “other” that is contained within the vast dominionist movement of human history. Asserting our dominion over animals—the most direct representatives of nature—is understood as a way of asserting our dominion and mastery over nature as a whole. At the root of misothery lies the same kinds of dynamics that Bookchin discusses. Mason writes:since animals are so representative of nature in general, it can mean hatred and contempt for nature—especially its animal-like aspects. One writer, for example, has described nature as “red in tooth and claw”—that is, bloodthirsty like a predatory animal. In another version of the same idea, we say “it is a dog-eat-dog world.” These are misotherous ideas, for they see animals and nature as vicious, cruel, base, and contemptible.47

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