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JoeMemo wrote

But individualist anarchists like primitivists aren't trying to force their ideals on anyone. They aim to withdraw from society.

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arduinna wrote

In this article the clear hope is to entirely dismantle our current society (something I can't really argue against) rather than to simply withdraw, especially given the person in question has Literally Zero Praxis. There's also individualist transhumanists, who just work on open source designs for prosthetics and such. Both have individualist currents within them which tend to be the ones I prefer.

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ziq OP wrote

This is the reason so many anticivs reject anarcho primitivism, it's grown increasingly dogmatic and ideological to the point where a lot of them are just as collectivist as ancoms in wanting to recreate society in their image.

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arduinna wrote

Do you have any anti-civ primers that aren't written in language that gives me more of a headache than English Literature classes do?

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JoeMemo wrote (edited )

I've often wondered if one can really be an individualist and be pro-civilization. It's collectivist by nature, in that one cannot escape its influence or really withdraw from it fully.

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arduinna wrote (edited )

That's a question beyond what I can answer based on what I know, but I'd probably define myself as not pro-civilization yet also not entirely anti-technology.

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