The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff

Author:Benjamin Hoff [Hoff, Benjamin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780140230161
Amazon: 0140230165
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1992-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

“Oh! That sort.”

“Yes. And we’re going to discover a Pole or something. Or was it a Mole? Anyhow we’re going to discover it.”

Unfortunately for our chances of survival and happiness, we in the West have inherited an Eeyore version of religion, which denounces the world as an evil place whose ways are to be ignored by the wise, and an Eeyore sort of science, which sneers at anything beyond a mechanistic view of the earth-the secrets of which it attempts to sneak out of it bit by bit, for the purpose of manipulating the natural world. Is either of these Ways very likely to get us out of the mess we’re in? Or to even help us see what’s causing it?

Eeyore religion says that the earth isn’t worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We’d like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he

asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky. Eeyore science, on the other hand, insists that Technology will rescue us from destruction-in-cluding the considerable destruction that Technology causes. When it tells us things like that, we can’t help but wonder if it isn’t trying to be some sort of religion itself. No, not a religion, exactly-some sort of voodoo.

“Wunga wunga, moomba noonga-Great Tin God, save us from hexachlorobenzene, ethylene dibromide, toxaphene, chlordane, parathion, and everything else you’ve given us that’s gone wrong.” Well, wunga wunga, everybody-and lots of luck!

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