Prince Charles and Trees
anecdote ·
retold in 3 talks
Mocks Prince Charles for boasting about having conversations with trees, rejecting this 'fake neo-spiritualism' in favor of treating objects as political comrades.
As told 2
“Well, I like to go to a garden and have a conversation with trees. No, thanks, you know.”
“that you know their speech argues for diversity and inclusion but what Wittgenstein uses the German term zeigt sich what shows itself through their speech is precisely a position of radical exclusion.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Andrew Schally1Ed1Cecilia Alemani1Bill Maher1Ron DeSantis1Prince Charles2Timothy Morton1Marc Chagall1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
Mocks Prince Charles for boasting about having conversations with trees, rejecting this 'fake neo-spiritualism' in favor of treating objects as political comrades., illustrating Objects as comrades
Žižek cites a Glasgow climate meeting featuring Prince Charles, arguing that while they 'said everything' about the crisis, their subjective position was one of disengagement, delivering a message that 'it's enough to talk about it.', illustrating knowledge as fetish