April 14, 2019

Ramon Elani: Make The Home The Center Of Your Life

6 minutes

This is a segment of episode #185 of Last Born In The Wilderness “The Gods Have Fled: The Home As A Site Of Defiance Against Modernity w/ Ramon Elani.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWelani

Read ‘Land, Home, and the Gods’ by Ramon Elani at Gods & Radicals: http://bit.ly/LandHomeGods

Often, when I try to get at the vast moral dilemma we are forced to address in the face of the global climate crisis, the extinction of human and non-human life, and the hollowing of community and connection to the land implicit in the “progress” narrative of industrial civilization — the notion of addressing these converging crises on a collective level seemed apparent and obvious. While that may be true, another truth emerges from the prose of Ramon Elani — heathen writer and poet. In this segment of my interview with Ramon, I ask him to expound on the themes he’s presented in the essay ‘Land, Home, and the Gods.’ Ramon’s prose is intoxicating, blunt, poetic, beautiful, heartbreaking, and clarifying. Ramon doesn’t shy away from obvious truths implicit in modernity and the reality it has forged in its attempt to subject the Earth and its living systems to the logic of “progress” and endless growth. In Ramon’s work, the home and our relationship with the land becomes the center of our resistance to the life destroying forces that are despoiling the planet. Modernity is reckoned with in these terms, as Ramon has thoroughly and lucidly explored in his writing, which I have delightfully read and incorporated into my own worldview.

“Modernity and industrialism, we believe, frees us from work but in truth, all it does is deprive our work of any meaning. There has never been a more overworked human being than the industrialized one. Work becomes labor, crushing the body and soul. The idea of the home retreats into the world of dreams, while we are bled dry to pay for the meanest and most squalid tenements. Let the home and the idea of the home become a pillar of strength. Let the home become a site of defiance, a bold denial of industrial society. Let the home be made into a bulwark against the modern world.”

Ramon Elani is an acausal, anti-modern, heathen poet and author. He holds a PhD in literature and philosophy. He lives with his family among mountains and rivers in Western New England. He follows the way of wyrd.

Learn more about Ramon’s work at his website: https://thetigersleap.wordpress.com

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