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ziq OP wrote (edited )

I also decided to spell out a distinction between high technology and low technology because people still aren't understanding that the anti-civ critique of technology doesn't actually differ from the post-civ critique of technology.

If you prefer, it's the difference between low-tech (useful, sustainable) and high-tech (alienating, destructive).

I also added another Moore quote that more directly refutes killjoy's strawman ("It is neither possible, nor desirable, to return to a pre-civilized state of being."):

The aim is not to replicate or return to the primitive, merely to see the primitive as a source of inspiration, as exemplifying forms of anarchy. For anarcho-primitivists, civilization is the overarching context within which the multiplicity of power relations develop. Some basic power relations are present in primitive societies — and this is one reason why anarcho-primitivists do not seek to replicate these societies — but it is in civilization that power relations become pervasive and entrenched in practically all aspects of human life and human relations with the biosphere. 

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