MYTH, NATURE, AND THE BUREAUCRATIC EXPERIENCE

From the ''deep'' ecological perspective, there is a dualism between a n ecocentric and an anthropocentric perspective, and this dualism is r eflected in the ideal of the bureaucratic experience. The bureaucrat l ives by the myth of the human ability to control nature. An eco-myth i s evolving that can offer one means of transcending the dominant burea ucratic mythic experience. This eco-myth moves toward a positive and s ensitive human relationship with nature-a collective experience that v alues nature on its own terms and not as standing reserve. This positi on is no less mythic than the one it is replacing, but it is a better myth, because, being non-dualist, it offers the prospect of a politica l society in harmony with nature.