- 21 Mar 2015 23:16
#14538877
I've met many primitivists, and not one has ever advocated killing off 99% of the population. Primitivists aren't about imposing our political ideology on the world, like the other political schools do. If anything, primitivism is more about practical and personal solutions (ie rewilding) which can't be said for most other political ideologies. Primitivist ideology merely believes that the best political arrangement is in hunter-gatherer society. That doesn't mean that all of us advocate a plan to turn the planet back to that state. The short term suicidal greed of civilization is already doing all the work for us really. Just as every other civilization has collapsed in the past, this one is looking towards the same trajectory (at least according to a recent NASA funded study).
Now, in regards to your point that there will always be an evolution towards the state. How can you be absolutely sure in predicting the future? A large swath of the folks who will survive the next civilizational collapse already have a culture of contempt towards civilization and it's byproducts. So who's to say they wouldn't be able to suppress it? Throughout history there have been many occasions where tribal people have resisted civilization.
"Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal." - Albert Einstein
quetzalcoatl wrote:This is the thing. You can't go back. It would require you to kill or starve 99% of the existing population in order to return to pre-agrarian tribal statelessness. Even this would be fruitless in the long run, as the evolution towards the state would simply repeat itself.
I've met many primitivists, and not one has ever advocated killing off 99% of the population. Primitivists aren't about imposing our political ideology on the world, like the other political schools do. If anything, primitivism is more about practical and personal solutions (ie rewilding) which can't be said for most other political ideologies. Primitivist ideology merely believes that the best political arrangement is in hunter-gatherer society. That doesn't mean that all of us advocate a plan to turn the planet back to that state. The short term suicidal greed of civilization is already doing all the work for us really. Just as every other civilization has collapsed in the past, this one is looking towards the same trajectory (at least according to a recent NASA funded study).
Now, in regards to your point that there will always be an evolution towards the state. How can you be absolutely sure in predicting the future? A large swath of the folks who will survive the next civilizational collapse already have a culture of contempt towards civilization and it's byproducts. So who's to say they wouldn't be able to suppress it? Throughout history there have been many occasions where tribal people have resisted civilization.
Last edited by Solastalgia on 22 Mar 2015 21:47, edited 2 times in total.
"Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal." - Albert Einstein