WTF John Zerzan?

Is that libcom's very own Mikus defending Willful Disobedience?

Big LOLZ!

Joke account.

Edit: also, that series of posts is from 2001.

Oh lawd!

i can't read any of that stuff without thinking of that fiction story on here. "The Adventures of Username" whatsit.

Very briefly, he posits that Zerzan and the other primmies are in fact misanthropic scum whose very ability to romanticise the primitive lies in the long distance they are away from it. He goes into quite a lot of detail in debunking the ludicrous assertions of these people that primitives led a better life than we do and that technology is itself an evil to be removed.

I shuld point out though that you asked a question, perhaps you should put more effort into learning the answer.

Fail

Of course it’s a little vague, it’s a summary! And misanthropic scum/romanticism was my words, not his. And I’m sorry, but anyone who adheres to a creed which requires the death of 90% of the human race to come about is misanthropic scum.

Romanticism in this case is people who wax lyrical about a “utopia” which has no evidence to back it up and zero chance of happening, using the very technology they despise to espouse it.

You mean that you can’t be bothered to read anything long, and haven’t found anything well-researched debunking primitivism? How extraordinary…

Actually, I reckon you are a joke account.

good lord. any chance of a level-headed conversation?

if primitivism requires a 90% die-off, then Reclaim the streets requires 90% of workers unable to reach their jobs or buy their food.
Anarchy requires 90% of people to be subject to the whims of others.
Anticapitalism requires 90% unemployment. Vegetarianism requires 90% of cows to be set free.

i think you may be reading too much into it; as i said, the only sensible critiques seem to start from a position of acquaintance.

primitivism is closest to a philosophy in my eyes. believing in god does not require a heaven.

and anarchy really does that! no more than life in general, in all fairness. but it's a valid point, imo.

from your hypothetical olympian ledge you can do nothing but tremble with vertigo.

Haha, I'll leave you to your primitivist alternate reality then.

Yarrow is that annoying guy, so eager to impress who doesnt realise that the libcommunity is the kitchen of the party, where we make off-key jokes and he is looking for the front sitting room (theory/organise/history forums) where idiots go to be deep. I would help him out with a link but I worry he might end up in the ICC. Perhaps you are more abc material?

oh yeah that cock? The one who comes in and is all "you guys are sooo immature!!! - what about poetry? what about love? WHAT ABOUT REVOLUTION!1!!1???"
"na mate, we're just having a laugh here, all the old people are in the front-room scratching their beards and talking about Thatcher, we're just gonna smash-up an old microwave"

indeed, connor, you are a true spastic. they now have a new word, so that 'spastic' can be saved for you and weiner.
i'm having a laugh myself. at you guys, because you are unable to converse on any kind of serious level. i guess you all live with your mums? i get the impression you've not yet flown the nest, your rites of passage lay far ahead... bless

That's it Yarrow, you tell them. This r serious forum.

Yeh. None of us are even in serious revolutionary organisations and using this place to kill time while we are at work. The guy is an attention whore, time to ignore methinks.