Anarcho-Primitivism: Civilization, Symbolic Culture, and Rewilding

Anarcho-Primitivism: Civilization, Symbolic Culture, and Rewilding

Jul 24, 2017

 Dr. Layla AbdelRahim is an anthropologist, author,
Revolutionary, and anarcho-primitivist thinker who urges us to
examine civilization, its premises, its psychology, its
pathologies, and its manifestions (including capitalism). She sits
down with Brett to discuss the philosophy of anarcho-primitivism
and debunks myths that many leftists have about the tendency and
the philosophy that goes with it. It's not a call to dismantle
everything with no concern for who it hurts; rather it offers a way
*forward* by insisting on an analysis that goes deeper than
capitalism, and cuts to the core of our civilization, our
evolutionary history, and our psyches. This is a must-listen
episode! 

Topics Include: Civilization, language, anthropology, symbolic
culture, the use of language, the agricultural revolution, Marxism,
the concept of "rewilding", meditation, train journies across
Russia, going into nature, and much more!!!

 

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writings:

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this was good

Now, please continue and explain WHY "this was good."

I listened to this because I wanted to hear AbdelRahim in her own words. so there's that.
i thought her answers were not clear, and i want to give her the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to english not being her first language (i assume) but as the interview went on it became clear her arguments don't hold together. it's not just that i don't agree, but i had a hard time finding a consistent thread.
i guess what it (seems to) boil down to (according to her) is "we" have made errors in "our" thinking and now the world is a mess. these errors include hunting, agriculture and language, (or later she says literacy , which is more the thing, imo). it's the ''we'' here that is an issue. who, exactly, is "we"? the universalizing of this"we" would come as a surprise, i should think, to Indigenous peoples here on Turtle Island (and elsewhere) who might have engaged in said practices without fucking up their environment. not to mention that to speak of "we" in this universalizing manner continues the erasure of Indigenous and Black experience in the wake of ongoing genocide and anti-black settler-colonialism.

The fact that anarchists can't get over "we" as agri-logistic vectors is hilarious. You're going to sit here forever masturbating for perfect positions (beautiful soul) while creating more Cold War enemies within this sphere of thinking than getting anything done.

Like it or not agrilogistic frameworks is a "we" in the sense of being the noir perpetrator and detective at the same time. Regardless of how supposedly "withdrawn" you in thinking or action.

Acting like you're outside of this or transcended it through some corny egoism / perfect meta position is beautiful soul syndrome.

gg no re

17:45 - you obviously don't get the concept of "generalization", particularly the level of dangerous over-generalization that shoves all human animals into the same fucking box of thought and behavior. no different than the bigotry which requires that humans be categorized (generalized into smaller, more easily controlled groupings) by attribute X, and demeaned/oppressed as a result.

is it really so hard to understand that there are individual human animals that think and act differently from others? y'all obviously have no problem discriminating based on how they look.

to be clear, i, nettle, am part of the "we" for sure.

my point was, as anon says, the universalizing of my experience, or the "we" that i do inhabit, is continuing the erasure of the people my people have been trying to dehumanize and genocide out of existence.

some of us don't shy away from the occasional "we"? and before the trolls say anything, yes, it's because all I do all day is picture mao, stalin and marx in a super hot 3 way, beard on stache yo!

might be an egoism confirmation bias. oh shit! got "we'ed". prepare for long, rambling diatribe about the sanctity of the unique. wake me when it's over!

Vegan anarcho-primitivists writing from the academia... Give me a break.

If predators are an evil, than better to stay with civilization and domestication. So ridiculous it looks to praise primitive
peoples while projecting civilized values on them...

Anti-intellectualism while depending on all of its trickle down for psychic armor and meta positions.

Anarchisms vampire castle is arguably more toxic than the liberal left. Now that's comedy.

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