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JENSEN
Derrick Jensen, author of The Culture of Make Believe, can be seen as a prophet. His book is his message and those he hopes to spread his message to are the people who read his book. The unacceptable situation he wants to fix is the way we all currently live our lives. He discusses the way hatred has become embedded into our society. He begins with the most obvious of hatred within society by discussing hate groups. Jensen examines the way hatred has played a part in many different ways; through racism and the slave trade, South African apartheid, children sold into prostitution rings, police violence, consumerism, capitalism, the massacres of the Native Americans, and more. His goal is to reveal the patterns of hate within Western Civilization. He then goes even further, to proclaim that even relationships we have with others can be examples of hatred. He also disects how technology has even furthered our hate.
Jensen is a prophet because he takes every day aspects of our lives and dissects how they are fueled by hatred. He presents the way we live our daily lives in a new way, showing how destructive we are without even recognizing it. It is in this way that Jensen is a prophet, for he presents the way we live in a new and unusual way, in hopes of helping us all develop better lives.
Jensens message is that in order to solve our destructive world, is to return back to simplier times, back when men were hunters and gatherers, and that if we do not, it will be the end of the world as we know it. He believes that the way we have grown to live is not at all the way humans should. That we must return back to humanity, and must relearn what it means to be human.