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World Gone Mad By Derrick Jensen Analysis

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In his essay “World Gone Mad” Derrick Jensen gives his readers an insight on psychopathic behaviors found in our culture today. He does this by giving a personal experience at a convention where he left completely distraught at the lack of empathy and concern for, essentially, anything that is not human. He goes on to give readers, excerpts from in formation he found through the World Health Organization. He describes in great detail the correlation between the characteristics of sociopaths and the way culture views non-human things today. I completely agree with Derrick Jensen, our culture today not only is not recognizing the damage we are causing, but we also refuse to acknowledge and take responsibility for it. Now of course, this does not hold true for every human on earth, but it does hold truth for a vast majority of them. As the excerpt states, “callous unconcern for the feelings of others,” things such as deforestation occur regularly around the world. “Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. An estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of forest, which is roughly the size of the country of Panama, are lost each year, …show more content…

They have a conscious and feel guilt and remorse when they do something that is wrong. However, there is a minority of people, who do not know the difference between right and wrong behavior. To put it more bluntly, they do not care about right and wrong. A sociopath does not care about what is right and wrong, only what is convenient and expeditious at the time. He/she believes in doing as they please regardless of the consequences to others. What matters to them is the achievement of their specific

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