I have a sense this person is popular not for the gravity of his thinking... But the attractor function of philosophical-ecological critique for lefties. Partic

I have a sense this person is popular not for the gravity of his thinking... But the attractor function of philosophical-ecological critique for lefties. Particularly those that have a high verbal IQ. If you don't have a good map for the different levels on which kinds of things can be said to operate, then it's intellectually trivial to lay your noodly appendage across a few, and name whatever comes out some combination of latin-greek roots. I'm all for redirecting and expanding perceptions of what is meaningful and what is moral, but it seems that there are a lot of different flavours for the same thing: 'x category definition leads to y outcome'. What determines the momentum of this claim relates to timing and status, fools gold for prescience. If we are to take any insight from whatever thing that 'hyperobjects' points to, then it should be the notion that the material consequences of our actions are entwined with our state of mind at the point of consequence. Every experience I have of action informs the kind and timing of future actions. Whatever is held to be more essential of these (action|conception) to some phenomena prescribes what kind 'really matters'. In Morton's world this is hyper-objects - in my world, evolutionary essentialism. Non-departmental 'philosophy' (edit: I mean 'non-canonical') unfortunately often seems to lead to, 'we started with these popular categories and their features, applied some functions, now we have something different, guess we didn't need those other categories since we retained features. We promise this is unique and cool. And that we definitely retained those features. We fail to mention possibility of knock-down responses, or look for analogues in other fields since we want some money and fame. We hope you get the experience of intellectualism without the effort. Buy my book.' It's not impressive to take strands of popular rationality and make knots.