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adblocker wrote (edited )

The thing is that it is just like other forms of anarchy. Just an ideal and unlikely to actually happen in reality, so saying it relies on "human extinction and collapse" is mostly beside the point. It is hard to imagine any future at the moment that doesn't involve mass death which would end us anywhere besides some massive homogenized surveillance state.

The core premise of anarcho-primitivism is that technology is contingent on hierarchy

Disagree. Technology goes hand in hand with systems of control. Especially since most new technology is created and owned by corporations/governments, most technology is either created for the purpose of, or ends up complicit in strengthening systems of control. Technology is responsible for the enforcement and stabilization of hierarchies. You can't have a surveillance state like China where Muslims are being thrown into internment camps without the necessary technology to track and identify them.

I think a lot of people look at technology as inherently liberatory because it "makes things easier" or something, but I disagree.

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