Tag Archives: Environmentalism

An Environmentalist’s Revenge Fantasy

By Robin Bates | Published: October 26, 2012

Scott Bates proves an environmentalist’s revenge fantasy against those violating the earth.

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Fixing the House that Jefferson Built

By Robin Bates | Published: November 11, 2010

I offer my apologies to my regular readers for having written a series of very long posts this week. To give you some relief, I offer up a political poem by my father, who is a master of light verse. As he did in a poem that I ran in a previous post (you can […]

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This Fragile Earth, Our Island Home

By Robin Bates | Published: May 5, 2010

On Monday I talked about how Silko says that, if we are to end our destructive (and ultimately self-destructive) assaults upon the earth, we must come into spiritual alignment with it.  I’m aware that appealing to Native American religions is sure to draw jeers from certain sectors of the political right, especially the Rush Limbaughs […]

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Purity Tests Kill the Patient

By Robin Bates | Published: April 7, 2010

This is following up on an idea I inferred yesterday, that our delight in white cherry tree blossoms indicates a deep longing for innocence.  I suggested that we have more of a problem than do the Japanese (or at least certain Japanese connoisseurs) over the fact that this innocence will fade.  Wanting to grab on to innocence […]

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Environmental Revenge Fantasy

By Robin Bates | Published: March 5, 2010

Film Friday Henceforth I will devote my Friday posts to something I like almost as much as literature–which is to say, movies.  Film is, after all, a narrative art form, and I teach film history and theory as well as literature at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Although I may, at times, look at intersections between […]

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Mess with Dionysus and You’ll Pay

By Robin Bates | Published: January 27, 2010

Euripides’ The Bacchae was written 2500 years ago.  Given the shape our environment is in, the play is more urgent than ever. The story involves the nature god Dionysus, who visits Thebes followed by a troupe of dancing women, the Maenads or Bacchae.  Dionysus is the product of a union between Zeus and Semele, a […]

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