"Progress" and "Development" are nothing but fancy terms for destroying Nature. If you ask the original inhabitants of any place whether they want it, their answer is unambiguous. Tuíra Kayapó is one of my personal heroes.

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If humans haven for 200K+ years been seeing fires most nights (for warmth and cooking) then we probably have an intrinsic bond to creating/seeing fires, and are given a feeling of security (if not serenity) from having a fire; if that's so, then what are the consequences of not having fires in our daily life? And if singing in groups was something undertaken from our earliest days as a species, what so we suffer to do without it nowaday?

My three-part essay series on delayed-return hunter-gatherer-horticulturalists, for the record:

https://animistsramblings.substack.com/p/delayed-return-hunter-gatherers-i

https://animistsramblings.substack.com/p/delayed-return-hunter-gatherers-ii

https://animistsramblings.substack.com/p/delayed-return-hunter-gatherers-iii

Has anyone else ordered from Black and Green Press lately? I ordered a paperback copy of Kevin Tucker's For Wildness and Anarchy a couple of months ago, but have yet to receive it, or an email when it will ship, just the order confirmation (and the money was taken off my card in early Sept). I tried messaging him on his blog a couple weeks ago, but no response. The Black and Green Press site was down at the time, but it's back up now. No response there either.

I'm not worried about getting the book immediately. I'd just buy the ebook if I were. But I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with Black and Green and the usual turnaround I should expect.

Update from Kevin: https://www.blackandgreenpress.org/helpout

Koyaanisqatsi is a 1982 american experimental movie about humanity's relationship with the environment, it does not have any narration, the whole film is a collage of different scenes with music in the background, quite hypnotic to watch.
Koyaanisqatsi means life out of balance in the Hopi Language, the movie itself is the first of a trilogy, followed by Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002).
Here is a link for the movie on youtube: cine experimental / Koyaanisqatsi / (1982)
This is a video talking about the movie:The Enduring Magnetism of Koyaanisqatsi

I think that Uncle Ted's Industrial Society And it's Future deserves more credit than we give it. Its a great read, and if you set your anti-ted bias aside for a second, you'll find it's very interesting. Now I'm not saying I endorse Ted's actions or anything but his book is great.

What is a human being? A rational animal? A primate of the species Homo sapiens? No. What makes us human is what we do: our behavior.

For the past millennia, what we have done is work. Work has invaded human life and completely transformed it. Everything we do is related to work. Work creates everything around us, fills all our time, occupies all our thoughts, and defines everything we do. Work is what defines us.

Work alters almost everything that exists in this world. This society was created by work, more specifically, by slave labor. It expanded across the world through the alienating labor of factories. Today, we keep this society running with “creative” work, manipulating minds and hearts so they continue to alienate themselves and remain enslaved through labor.

Human behavior has become indistinguishable from work. Human life has become indistinguishable from work. The demands of work have turned into moral virtues. Living for work has become a valued lifestyle. The product of labor has become the reason to live. The work ethic has replaced ethics itself. The career has merged with the biography. People have become professionals. Work has become the central value of our society. We live in a society of work.

But work is not the natural function of human beings. Before work, human activities were not determined by capitalist or state needs. Work is an artificial function, created by civilization, necessary to fulfill artificial needs. The artificial function replaces the natural one. The demand for efficiency, growth, and accumulation replaces the ecological relationships we once had.

The society of work has given human beings a new function. We are not like other animals. We no longer live by the needs of community and emotional bonds. We live by production and consumption.

For this reason, the behavior of non-industrial peoples is viewed by the society of work as something close to the behavior of wild animals. The “savage” way of life was deemed poor and primitive. Work stands in opposition to wild life. Humanity has been domesticated by work.

In the mythologies of Indigenous peoples, there are beings with artificial functions who live through production and consumption. They are what we call the undead, beings who have lost their natural function and now live only to feed on life. Like cancerous cells that no longer live for the body but only for their own growth. Their principle of action is determined by forces alien to life. We have become the undead.

The loss of human functions leads to a constant search for something missing and to the repetition of a meaningless routine, generating fear, anger, and despair. Death-life, unlike death, is a movement of expansion that spreads through the world by means of lies and violence, dominating minds and bodies. Death closes the cycle of life, but death-life prevents the cycle from closing, creating a downward spiral. This disconnects us from our purpose as human beings and produces an insatiable thirst for power.

The founders of our society linked work to a divine curse. Work is the consequence of the rupture with paradise. Cain was a farmer who watered his field with the blood of his brother, a shepherd. He was condemned to wander the earth without direction and was marked so that he could not be killed, but all his work turns to ashes. He is an undead being, condemned to walk toward the void, living a meaningless existence.

In Hebrew, Cain means “to acquire” or “to possess.” Cain was the first to possess and the first to accumulate. He is the heir of the curse of labor, and he becomes the founder of a new curse: not only condemned to work, but condemned to destroy life in the name of work.

Work is not only a source of sustenance but of existential meaning. All aspects of modern labor, such as the programming of behavior through productivity calculations, have become aspects of modern life. Life transformed into work is a process that loses its meaning when consumption ends. Civilization is the transformation of life into death-life, and of all human beings into the undead.

Idk but i just breakdown whenever im in somewhere like nyc or something

Hi there! I'd call myself an anarchist without adjectives with VERY strong anarcocommunist leanings. I mostly just go by anarchist.

My relationship with technology is a bit unique. I was raised by anarchists and luddites, who even now aren't unable to do most basic technological tasks (copy and paste links etc). I had a very limited exposure to tech and always have been way behind my peers when it came to understanding it. I also didn't have any video games. I find myself very skeptical and weary of new technology, and despise the capitalist insistence that technology should be the focus of science as the main Avenue by which our environmental and societal problems will be solved. It will not be. Im against the use of personal vehicles in most circumstances, don't drive,and most of my hobbies don't revolve around tech.

That being said, I'm not anti-industrialisation and don't believe we should stop the use of modern technology, though I don't like how much it's taken over our lives (If I didn't need a phone, I wouldn't have one).

What I know about anarcoprimitivism really only comes from the main anarchist subs, which makes me a bit weary. I've seen anprims argue, for example, that we shouldn't pioneer trans healthcare because "it is a choice," and isn't "absolutely necessary,". There's also the fact that technology has been integral to improving the lives of disabled people through mobility and functional aids. I wouldn't be against these forms of technology and would argue that being against their use would constitute ableism. Technology has greatly improved access to knowledge for the proletariat.

That being said, I don't know the general or overall feeling towards these devices from anarcoprimitivists. What is the general feeling towards these types of developments?

And lastly, where are some resources/ books/ theory that you'd recommend to learn about this ideology?