Anarcho-Primitivism

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Hello. I Am Daniel G. Jones. And I Am An Anarcho-Primitivist. I Believe That We Would Benefit Grately If We Were More In Touch With Our Animal Selves And Primal Beings. The World Is Going To Heck Because We All Have(Not Me!! !!) IPOD's And Cellular Phones And Do Not Pay Attention To Animal And Tree And NAture. We Should Fite For Food AlongSide Bears And Tigers And We Should ABandonm LOur Homes For Caves And Need To Work With Each Other To Survive.

Sincerely,
Daniel G. Jones

Using a computer, the internet, the electric grid, and you've got a kirby avatar...

I assume you are not THE Daniel Jones:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Jon ... etician%29

Dig this thread back up in about 10 years when you know something about how the world works. Total dependence on technology isn't healthy for the individual or society, but the whole Khmer Rouge lifestyle is even worse for you.

Let us all grub for roots and berries.

ruveyn

This.

Although we have become so complacent with modern society that we haven't learned to thrive under adversity, we just simply need to learn to toughen up and not settle for total dependence on technology rather than go live like cavemen.

The content of your post is a red herring.
I get that its some kind of code that has something to do with the arbitrary way that you have capitalized words in the post.

Writing down each capital letters doesnt seem to spell out anything.
Forward or backwards

But I still think that its gotta be somekind of code.

You have not seen as much preacademic writing as I have, I guess. Like the people who capitalize every word - worse than German - or put a period after EVERY word.

Yes. Just a hundred years ago, people had enough sense to store up food and fuel for winter and/or for difficult times ... and they knew where and how to find that without having to procure/steal it from a convenience store.

Anarcho-Primitivism is a hippyish pandering for a Golden Age which never existed, that presupposes that the only worthwhile pursuit for humans is a quest for primitive hedonistic jollies. We f**k, we fight, we dance for the sun god, and we decay into a putrid pile of maggots. What a life.

Yeah forgotten how is a better way to put it. We have lost our ways of self-reliance, personal accountability and impulse control since the convenience of modern society isn't as demanding of those traits.

Anarcho Primitivism is an Oxymoron because in order to achieve that you will have destroy everything that is a product of civilization by force and making everyone Hunter-Gatherer or Primitive by force and Anarchism is a voluntary ideology. The reason why it requires coercion because almost no one will voluntarily hand over there technology. Anarcho Capitalism, Anarcho Individualism, and Anarcho Imperialism are my favorites. Hahahaha Anarcho Imperialism I made that one up.

I was really into anarcho-primitivism when I was younger. The an-prims make a lot of good points. It is true that technological progress has led to the destruction of the environment. It is true that prehistoric human societies were the freest societies ever. I agree that technological growth is the primary driver behind social change.

That being said, technological growth is inevitable at this point.

Also, the an-prims are overly cynical about the future of technology. Some types of technology can actually make us freer or save the environment. The printing press made democracy possible, and the internet will likely make more direct forms of democracy possible. I am also confident that human civilisation will survive global warming, thanks to the development of green technology. Once the smoke is clear, nature will gradually recover as it always does.

Most an-prims also don't realize that the rate of human population growth is dropping. At this rate, the global human population will reach its peak around 2100 and then begin to decrease. This will end up being wonderful for the environment.

Once the temporary problems of global warming and overpopulation have been dealt with, there will be just a few thousand humans living in green, democratic cities dotted throughout the world. The wilderness will gradually recover from the horrors of global warming. In this world, there will be plenty of room for people who desire a wild existence.

Even today, there are some hunter-gatherer tribes that are isolated from human civilisation. These tribes may end up being absorbed into civilisation over the next century (which will likely be a time of troubles) … but eventually the system will right itself and then there will be a renaissance of wild people.

In the past, civilized people and wild people peacefully coexisted on the same planet. This will happen again after the human population crosses over the 10 billion hump and then declines. Anarcho-primitivists can ultimately achieve their goals without destroying civilization in its entirety.

I agree that humans need to be more in touch with nature, but destroying civilisation entirely is not a necessary step towards achieving this.

An-prim hero:

I fixed that for you. Videos aren't embedding properly on this site … at least for me.

I'm pretty sure that you don't need to be an an-prim in order to appreciate the Primitive Technology YouTube channel.

It's embedded for me, but cheers.

And yeah, mostly a joke. His vids are weirdly relaxing,though.