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gracklegrackle wrote

I love asking people this question. I’m always interested to hear answers, especially because how religiously anti-civ belief will manifest.

Don’t get me wrong, I hate civilization and believe that it is a root of these systems of social and individual domination, but with that being said quite a bit of anti-civ or primitivism theory hinges on this very christian belief of returning to the garden of eden. Civilization is satan, and returning to a more “pure” and “natural” way of living is holiness. What the fuck even is “natural”? There are so, so many things that occur within nature that are extremely cruel, and personally they’re things that I’d like to avoid.

I think this is why I really am excited that a new-ish wave of anti-civ writers have come into the anarchist theory realm over the past decade, Bellamy Fitzpatrick for example, who have been challenging the older primitivists such as Zerzan or Tucker. I appreciate the all the authors who have come to engage in this sort of discourse and don’t believe one is better than the other, and I want to make that clear.

I don’t know, maybe I’m rambling, but it’s thoughts and questions I’ve had for a while now. I’ve really been trying to challenge my own beliefs and others as well in a manner that helps us grow, and I think discussing what civ even is really achieves that.

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