Professor Charlie Camosy writes this book for all of us concerned with ethical issues of the day - state sponsored violence, immigration, treatment of animals, climate change, euthanasia etc and presents a coherent way of thinking about them under one consistent ethic - namely a 'consistent life ethic.'
In his usual easy to read, engaging style, he takes on some of the biggest issues of the day and shows us how they are all connected. He shows us how many of our practices are rooted in violence and stem out of an all consuming focus on personal autonomy as the greatest good, a lack of vested relationships, and avoidance of burden sharing.
He presents the concept of a 'throwaway culture' - where in our modern day consumer driven culture - everything is 'thing-a-fied' and objectified and used as a means to an end, and then discarded when no longer useful or convenient for us. His antidote to this is a 'culture of encounter' whereby we open ourselves to others in a way to engage with them and recognize their inherent dignity. This approach transcends political and or religious affiliation.
An interesting and effective technique that he uses is that he also presents hypothetical 'counter-arguments' to his arguments at the end of each chapter, in order for the reader to 'on-the-spot' engage more deeply with what they just read.
I don't say this lightly, but this really is a 'must-read.'
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An alternative to two uninspiring factions
Camosy's book draws connections between features of our political and cultural lives, showing how hookup culture, the abortion regime, militant nationalism, consumerism, and a range of phenomena that span Democrat and Republican platforms do not stand as opposite concerns but constitute a complex Throwaway Culture, a disposition to take creation, human and otherwise, and treat it as disposable.Camosy's project is not to lobby for Democrats or Republicans but to propose an alternative to Throwaway Culture that he calls a Culture of Encounter, an approach to human beings (in all stages of the human journey) and creation around us as neighbors and gifts, recognizing the dignity that God bestows to all. This book doesn't have the concrete policy proposals that Camosy's earlier book Beyond the Abortion Wars does, but the broader span of its examination should spur the imagination of those, like me, who have longed for something beyond elephants and donkeys.
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