living prophet

Throughout the revelation course we have been studying the tropes within the revelation mega-trope. A crucial trope in the revelation process is the revealer, also known as the prophet. The prophet is the one who brings enlightenment and the revelation to the disciple and ignorant folk. A revelation prophet doesn’t have to be someone that is famous or deceased, but can simply be a person who has revealed something to you. A prophet can be a family member, a friend, teacher, stranger, author or even a fictional character. Derrick Jensen is an American author and an environmental activist who questions contemporary society and its values. Jensen is well known for his belief that civilization is inherently unsustainable and based on viloence. Jensen's work catalogues what he perceives as the pervasiveness of abuse, hatred, rape, environmental destruction, and dishonesty (which he says serves to maintain the systemic abuse of civilization), (Derrick Jensen). Through his work, Jesen exhorts the audience to help bring an end to industrail civilization. In a email converstation between Andy Snyder and Derrick Jensesn, Jensen was asked if he considers himself as a prophet/revealer, here’s his response, “I certainly don't consider myself "the" and you can tell them i haven't really thought about whether I'm "a" prophet/revealer. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know what that's supposed to feel like. I'm just me, who right now is wearing sweats and shirt and sweatshirt and sitting in front of the computer and space heater. I just write what I do, and I try to get people to fight back before this culture kills the planet”.
Although I doubt that he would consider himself a living prophet, he has this certain outlook on life that differs from most others. Jensen finds the truth that is hidden beneath all the lies and attempts to break them down. Things that “others” try to distract us from, Derrick Jensen brings to our attention. In the end it’s the audiences option to believe and try to do something about it. Throughout his book, the culture of Make Believe, he explores cases of racism; hate crimes, prostitution (to name a few) and tries to understand the different aspects of the ideas. He tries to show how the different ideas string together. In order to show how they align, he must first explore the ideas separately and in doing so realizes that the strings get more tangled.

Derrick Jensen. Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Jensen