Capitalist monsters and Taoist plants

Swamp Thing, Star Wars, and answering the question: "Where is evil in all the wood?"

This is part of an ongoing series on the ideas and philosophy of Alan Moore. Read the rest here.

In Braiding Sweetgrass, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer explains capitalism’s destruction in terms of the Indigenous legend of the Windigo. The Windigo legend first came from the Algonquian peoples of the Great Lakes region and Canada’s far north. These places e…