By John Zerzan & Kevin Tucker
ISBN-10: 0922915989
ISBN-13: 9780922915989
ISBN-10: 1021051071
ISBN-13: 9781021051073
ISBN-10: 1932595708
ISBN-13: 9781932595703
“Read it and you'll by no means consider civilization within the comparable approach again.”—Kirkpatrick Sale
This anthology approximately "the pathology of civilization" bargains perception into how growth and know-how have resulted in vacancy and alienation.
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These are the characteristics of the finest and most healthful primitive races, who live under the most ideal climatic and nutritional conditions. Primitive races less favored by environment are less successful in meeting weakness and disease, but even the poorest of these have better teeth and skeletal development than civilized man, and they usually present other physical advantages as well. The experience of primitive man has therefore been one of great importance. We note that people living today, under the culture and environment of the Stone Age, have not only equalled but far surpassed civilized man in strength, physical development and immunity to disease.
Religion is a decadent second-hand relic of this original, authentic mode of experiencing, that attempts to blackmail by linking social control and morality with profound experiencings. Primal peoples sought to avoid whatever distracted from this profundity as much as possible. Obsessiveness of any sort could distract from the wholistic goodness of the environment. Why are we here? To experience profoundly. Our task, therefore, is to rearrange life (society, the economy) such that profundity is immanent in everyday life.
Spirituality represents the specialization and detachment of profundity from everyday life into a disembodied, disconnected, symbolic realm that becomes compensatory for an everyday life whose immanence is banality. It is obvious that we don’t regularly experience wonder, and this is a social-material problem, because the structure of everyday life discourages this. Other societies in history, however, have endeavored to discover what is truly of value in life, and then, and only then to structure everyday life upon those evident values.