“WHY CIVILIZATION?“
We are often told that our dreams are unrealistic, our demands impossible, that we are basically out of our fuckin' minds to even propose such a ridiculous concept as the "destruction of civilization". So, we hope this brief statement may shed some light on why we will settle for nothing less than a completely different reality than what is forced upon us today. We believe that the infinite possibilities of the human experience extend both forwards and backwards. We wish to collapse the discord between these realities. We strive for a "future primitive" reality, one which all of our ancestors once knew, and one we may come to know: a pre/post-technological, pre/post-industrial, pre/post-colonial, pre/post-capitalist, pre/post-agricultural, and even pre/post-cultural reality - when we were once, and may again be, WILD!
We feel it is necessary to raise some fundamental questions as to where we are now, how we have gotten to this point, where we are headed, and perhaps most importantly, where we have come from. This should not to be seen as irrefutable evidence, the Answers, or prescriptions for liberation; but instead, as things to consider while we fight against domination or attempt to create another world.
We believe anarchy to be the ultimate liberatory experience and our natural condition. Before, and outside of, civilization (and it's corrupting influences), humans were, and are, for lack of better terms, anarchistic. For most of our history we lived in small-scale groupings which made decisions face-to-face, without the mediation of government, representation, or even the morality of an abstract thing called culture. We communicated, perceived, and lived in an unmediated, instinctual, and direct way. We knew what to eat, what healed us, and how to survive. We were part of the world around us. There was no artificial separation between the individual, the group, and the rest of life.
In the larger scope of human history, not long ago (some say 10,000 to 12,000 years ago), for reasons we can only speculate about (but never really know), a shift began to occur in a few groupings of humans. These humans began to trust less in the earth as a "giver of life", and began to create a distinction between themselves and the earth. This separation is the foundation of civilization. It is not really a physical thing, although civilization has some very real physical manifestations; but it is more of an orientation, a mindset, a paradigm. It is based on the control and domination of the earth and its inhabitants.
Civilization's main mechanism of control is domestication. It is the controlling, taming, breeding, and modification of life for human benefit (usually for those in power or those striving for power). The domesticating process began to shift humans away from a nomadic way of life, towards a more sedentary and settled existence, which created points of power (taking on a much different dynamic than the more temporal and organic territorial ground), later to be called property. Domestication creates a totalitarian relationship with plants and animals, and eventually, other humans. This mindset sees other life, including other humans, as separate from the domesticator, and is the rationalization for the subjugation of women, children, and for slavery. Domestication is a colonizing force on non-domesticated life, which has brought us to the pathological modern experience of ultimate control of all life, including its genetic structures.
A major step in the civilizing process is the move towards an agrarian society. Agriculture creates a domesticated landscape, a shift from the concept that "the Earth will provide" to "what we will produce from the Earth". The domesticator begins to work against nature and her cycles, and to destroy those who are still living with and understanding her. We can see the beginnings of patriarchy here. We see the beginnings of not only the hoarding of land, but also of its fruits. This notion of ownership of land and surplus creates neverbefore experienced power dynamics, including institutionalized hierarchies and organized warfare. We have moved down an unsustainable and disastrous road.
Over the next thousands of years this disease progresses, with its colonizing and imperialist mentality eventually consuming most of the planet with, of course, the help of the religious-propagandists, who try to assure the "masses" and the "savages" that this is good and right. For the benefit of the colonizer, peoples are pitted against other peoples. When the colonizer's words do not suffice, the sword is never far away with its genocidal collision. As the class distinctions become more solidified, there becomes only those who have, and those who do not. The takers and the givers. The rulers and the ruled. The walls get raised. This is how we are told it has always been; but most people somehow know this isn't right, and there have always been those who have fought against it.
The war on women, the war on the poor, the war on indigenous and land-based people, and the war on the wild are all interconnected. In the eyes of civilization, they are all seen as commodities - things to be claimed, extracted, and manipulated for power and control. They are all seen as resources; and when they are of use no longer to the power-structure, they are discarded into the landfills of society. The ideology of patriarchy is one of control over self-determination and sustainability, of reason over instinct and anarchy, and of order over freedom and wildness. Patriarchy is an imposition of death, rather than a celebration of life. These are the motivations of patriarchy and civilization; and for thousands of years they have shaped the human experience on every level, from the institutional to the personal, while they have devoured life.
The civilizing process became more refined and efficient as time went on. Capitalism became its mode of operation, and the gauge of the extent of domination and the measure of what still is needed to be conquered. The entire planet was mapped and lands were enclosed. The nation-state eventually became the proposed societal grouping, and it was to set forth the values and goals of vast numbers of peoples, of course, for the benefit of those in control. Propaganda by the state, and the by now, less powerful church, started to replace some (but certainly not most) of the brute force with on-the-surface benevolence and concepts like citizenry and democracy. As the dawn of modernity approached, things were really getting sick.
Throughout the development of civilization, technology always played an ever-expanding role. In fact, civilization's progress has always been directly connected to, and determined by, the development of ever more complex, efficient, and innovative technologies. It is hard to tell whether civilization pushes technology, or vice-versa. Technology, like civilization, can be seen more as a process or complex system than as a physical form. It inherently involves division of labor, resource extraction, and exploitation by power (those with the technology). The interface with, and result of, technology is always an alienated, mediated, and heavily-loaded reality. No, technology is not neutral. The values and goals of those who produce and control technology are always embedded within it. Different from simple tools, technology is connected to a larger process which is infectious and is propelled forward by its own momentum. This technological system always advances, and always needs to be inventing new ways to support, fuel, maintain, and sell itself. A key part of the modern-techno-capitalist structure is industrialism; the mechanized system of production built on centralized power, and the exploitation of people and nature. Industrialism cannot exist without genocide, ecocide, and imperialism. To maintain it, coercion, land evictions, forced labor, cultural destruction, assimilation, ecological devastation, and global trade are accepted and seen as necessary. Industrialism's standardization of life objectifies and commodifies it, viewing all life as a potential resource. Technology and industrialism have opened the door to the ultimate domestication of life - the final stage of civilization - the age of neo-life.
So now we are in the post-modern, neo-liberal, bio-tech, cyber-reality, with an apocalyptic future and new world order. Can it really get much worse? Or has it always been this bad? We are almost completely domesticated, except for the few brief moments (riots, creeping through the dark to destroy machinery or civilization's infrastructure, connecting with other species, swimming naked in a mountain stream, eating wild foods, love-making, ...add your own favorites) when we catch a glimpse of what it would be like to go feral. Their "global village" is more like a global amusement park or global zoo, and it's not a question of boycotting it 'cause we're all in it, and it's in all of us. And we can't just break out of our own cages (although we're helpless unless we start there), but we gotta bust down the whole fuckin' place, feast on the zoo keepers and those who run and benefit from it, reconnect with our instincts, and become wild again! We cannot reform civilization, green it up, or make it more fair. It is rotten to the core. We don't need more ideology, morality, fundamentalism, or better organization to save us. We must save ourselves. We have to live according to our own desires. We have to connect with ourselves, those we care about, and the rest of life. We have to break out of, and break down, this reality.
COMMUNIQUE #23 FROM DISORDERLY CONDUCT #6
We are often told that our dreams are unrealistic, our demands impossible, that we are basically out of our fuckin' minds to even propose such a ridiculous concept as the "destruction of civilization". So, we hope this brief statement may shed some light on why we will settle for nothing less than a completely different reality than what is forced upon us today. We believe that the infinite possibilities of the human experience extend both forwards and backwards. We wish to collapse the discord between these realities. We strive for a "future primitive" reality, one which all of our ancestors once knew, and one we may come to know: a pre/post-technological, pre/post-industrial, pre/post-colonial, pre/post-capitalist, pre/post-agricultural, and even pre/post-cultural reality - when we were once, and may again be, WILD!
We feel it is necessary to raise some fundamental questions as to where we are now, how we have gotten to this point, where we are headed, and perhaps most importantly, where we have come from. This should not to be seen as irrefutable evidence, the Answers, or prescriptions for liberation; but instead, as things to consider while we fight against domination or attempt to create another world.
We believe anarchy to be the ultimate liberatory experience and our natural condition. Before, and outside of, civilization (and it's corrupting influences), humans were, and are, for lack of better terms, anarchistic. For most of our history we lived in small-scale groupings which made decisions face-to-face, without the mediation of government, representation, or even the morality of an abstract thing called culture. We communicated, perceived, and lived in an unmediated, instinctual, and direct way. We knew what to eat, what healed us, and how to survive. We were part of the world around us. There was no artificial separation between the individual, the group, and the rest of life.
In the larger scope of human history, not long ago (some say 10,000 to 12,000 years ago), for reasons we can only speculate about (but never really know), a shift began to occur in a few groupings of humans. These humans began to trust less in the earth as a "giver of life", and began to create a distinction between themselves and the earth. This separation is the foundation of civilization. It is not really a physical thing, although civilization has some very real physical manifestations; but it is more of an orientation, a mindset, a paradigm. It is based on the control and domination of the earth and its inhabitants.
Civilization's main mechanism of control is domestication. It is the controlling, taming, breeding, and modification of life for human benefit (usually for those in power or those striving for power). The domesticating process began to shift humans away from a nomadic way of life, towards a more sedentary and settled existence, which created points of power (taking on a much different dynamic than the more temporal and organic territorial ground), later to be called property. Domestication creates a totalitarian relationship with plants and animals, and eventually, other humans. This mindset sees other life, including other humans, as separate from the domesticator, and is the rationalization for the subjugation of women, children, and for slavery. Domestication is a colonizing force on non-domesticated life, which has brought us to the pathological modern experience of ultimate control of all life, including its genetic structures.
A major step in the civilizing process is the move towards an agrarian society. Agriculture creates a domesticated landscape, a shift from the concept that "the Earth will provide" to "what we will produce from the Earth". The domesticator begins to work against nature and her cycles, and to destroy those who are still living with and understanding her. We can see the beginnings of patriarchy here. We see the beginnings of not only the hoarding of land, but also of its fruits. This notion of ownership of land and surplus creates neverbefore experienced power dynamics, including institutionalized hierarchies and organized warfare. We have moved down an unsustainable and disastrous road.
Over the next thousands of years this disease progresses, with its colonizing and imperialist mentality eventually consuming most of the planet with, of course, the help of the religious-propagandists, who try to assure the "masses" and the "savages" that this is good and right. For the benefit of the colonizer, peoples are pitted against other peoples. When the colonizer's words do not suffice, the sword is never far away with its genocidal collision. As the class distinctions become more solidified, there becomes only those who have, and those who do not. The takers and the givers. The rulers and the ruled. The walls get raised. This is how we are told it has always been; but most people somehow know this isn't right, and there have always been those who have fought against it.
The war on women, the war on the poor, the war on indigenous and land-based people, and the war on the wild are all interconnected. In the eyes of civilization, they are all seen as commodities - things to be claimed, extracted, and manipulated for power and control. They are all seen as resources; and when they are of use no longer to the power-structure, they are discarded into the landfills of society. The ideology of patriarchy is one of control over self-determination and sustainability, of reason over instinct and anarchy, and of order over freedom and wildness. Patriarchy is an imposition of death, rather than a celebration of life. These are the motivations of patriarchy and civilization; and for thousands of years they have shaped the human experience on every level, from the institutional to the personal, while they have devoured life.
The civilizing process became more refined and efficient as time went on. Capitalism became its mode of operation, and the gauge of the extent of domination and the measure of what still is needed to be conquered. The entire planet was mapped and lands were enclosed. The nation-state eventually became the proposed societal grouping, and it was to set forth the values and goals of vast numbers of peoples, of course, for the benefit of those in control. Propaganda by the state, and the by now, less powerful church, started to replace some (but certainly not most) of the brute force with on-the-surface benevolence and concepts like citizenry and democracy. As the dawn of modernity approached, things were really getting sick.
Throughout the development of civilization, technology always played an ever-expanding role. In fact, civilization's progress has always been directly connected to, and determined by, the development of ever more complex, efficient, and innovative technologies. It is hard to tell whether civilization pushes technology, or vice-versa. Technology, like civilization, can be seen more as a process or complex system than as a physical form. It inherently involves division of labor, resource extraction, and exploitation by power (those with the technology). The interface with, and result of, technology is always an alienated, mediated, and heavily-loaded reality. No, technology is not neutral. The values and goals of those who produce and control technology are always embedded within it. Different from simple tools, technology is connected to a larger process which is infectious and is propelled forward by its own momentum. This technological system always advances, and always needs to be inventing new ways to support, fuel, maintain, and sell itself. A key part of the modern-techno-capitalist structure is industrialism; the mechanized system of production built on centralized power, and the exploitation of people and nature. Industrialism cannot exist without genocide, ecocide, and imperialism. To maintain it, coercion, land evictions, forced labor, cultural destruction, assimilation, ecological devastation, and global trade are accepted and seen as necessary. Industrialism's standardization of life objectifies and commodifies it, viewing all life as a potential resource. Technology and industrialism have opened the door to the ultimate domestication of life - the final stage of civilization - the age of neo-life.
So now we are in the post-modern, neo-liberal, bio-tech, cyber-reality, with an apocalyptic future and new world order. Can it really get much worse? Or has it always been this bad? We are almost completely domesticated, except for the few brief moments (riots, creeping through the dark to destroy machinery or civilization's infrastructure, connecting with other species, swimming naked in a mountain stream, eating wild foods, love-making, ...add your own favorites) when we catch a glimpse of what it would be like to go feral. Their "global village" is more like a global amusement park or global zoo, and it's not a question of boycotting it 'cause we're all in it, and it's in all of us. And we can't just break out of our own cages (although we're helpless unless we start there), but we gotta bust down the whole fuckin' place, feast on the zoo keepers and those who run and benefit from it, reconnect with our instincts, and become wild again! We cannot reform civilization, green it up, or make it more fair. It is rotten to the core. We don't need more ideology, morality, fundamentalism, or better organization to save us. We must save ourselves. We have to live according to our own desires. We have to connect with ourselves, those we care about, and the rest of life. We have to break out of, and break down, this reality.
"Why is civilization?"
Communique # 23 of Disorderly Conduct # 6
Communique # 23 of Disorderly Conduct # 6
often tell us that our dreams are unrealistic, our demands impossible that we are completely out of our vyjebaných thinks only propose such a ridiculous concept such as "e destroyed civilization." So we hope that this brief statement throws some light then why neuspojíme with nothing less than a completely different reality than that which is forced upon us today. We believe that the infinite possibilities of human experience, stretching forward and backward. We want a fall of inconsistency between these realities. We want a reality "future primitivism", such that once knew all of our ancestors, and you get to know: Before / post-technological, prior / post-industrial, prior / post-colonial, prior / post-capitalist, prior / post -agrarian and even pre / post-cultural reality - where we sometimes have, and maybe someday we will, Wild!
We feel it is necessary to ask some fundamental questions such as where we are now, how we got to this point where we are heading, and perhaps most importantly, we came to the Framework Convention. It should not be considered as irrefutable evidence, answers, or recipes for relief, but instead as a matter of discretion, while fighting against the domestication of, or attempt to create another world.
We believe that anarchy is a major liberating experience and our natural condition. Before and beyond, civilization (and its impact zahnívajúcich), people were and are, for lack of better terms, anarchistic. During most of our history, we lived in small groups, which enable decision-making in the face, without the mediation of the government, representation, or even morality of abstract things such as culture. We communicated, perceived and lived, we have an immediate, instinctive and direct way. We knew what we eat, what we managed to survive and heal. We were part of the world around us. Not There is no artificial separation between individuals, groups and the rest of life.
some time before human history, not so long ago (some say 10,000 to 12,000 years ago), for reasons of which we can only speculate (and never know exactly), slip began to appear in several clusters of people. These people no longer believe the country more as a "giver of life", and began to create the difference between them and the ground. This separation is the foundation of civilization. It's not really natural, even though civilization has very few natural terms, but rather it is the orientation, approach, design. It is based on the control and domination over the earth and its inhabitants.
Domestication is the main mechanism of control that is civilization. It's control, repression, education and modification of life for human benefit (usually those in power or those who want to achieve it). Domestikačný process to move people from realizing the nomadicity way of life, and to sedavejšej usadenejšej existence, which creates a place of power (takes a more distinct dynamics as dočasnejšie and territorial organickejšie area), later called the Assets. Domestication creates a totalitarian relationship with plants and animals and possibly others. This view sees a different life, including other people, as distinct from domestikátora. A rationalization is the dominance of women, children, and for slavery. Domestication is a colonizing force on non-domesticated life, which led us to a pathological modern skúsenoti final check of all life, including genetic structures.
important step in the civilizing process is the shift to agrarian society. Agriculture creates a domesticated landscape, gliding from the concept of "Earth provides" to "what we produce from the earth." Domestikátor begins to work against nature and its cycles, and destroy those who are still living with it and understand it. Here we see the beginnings of patriarchy. We see not only the accumulation of land, but also its fruit. The idea of \u200b\u200bholding the country and creates a surplus of inexperienced nikdypredtým dynamics of power, including institutionalized hierarchies and organized military conflict. We started the devastating and unsustainable path. During
nasledujúcich tisícov rokov robí táto choroba pokroky, so svojou kolonizačnou a imperialistickou mentalitou napokon konzumujúc väčšinu planéty s pomocou, samozrejme, náboženských propagandistov, ktorý sa snažia uistiť „masy“ a „divochov“, že to je dobré a správne. K úžitku kolonizátorov sú ľudia postavený proti iným ľuďom. Keď nepostačujú slová kolonizátora, nikdy nie je ďaleko meč s jeho genocídnym účinkom. Kým sa viac upevňujú triedne rozdiely, stávajú sa len tí čo majú, a tí čo nemajú. Tí čo and take what they give. Rulers and control. They build the walls. Here we say that it was always thus, but most people somehow know that this is not correct, and have always been those who fought against it.
war against women, war against the poor, the war against indigenous people and natural, and the war against wilderness and wilderness are all interconnected. In the eyes of civilization are all seen as commodities - things to requiring the acquisition and manipulation for power and control. All are seen as resources, and when no longer are beneficial to the power structure, are discarded in landfills company. Ideology of patriarchy is an ideology of control over self-determination and sustainability ideology causes of instinct and anarchy, and order ideology of freedom and wildness. Patriarchy is the imposition of the death, instead of celebration of life. These are the motivations of patriarchy and civilization, and for thousands of years shaped human experience on every level, from the institutional to the personal, while ate life.
process of civilization over time became more subtle and more efficient. Capitalism was the manner of operation, scale and extent of domination and size of everything is yet to be mastered. The entire planet has been charted and the country were limited. The nation-state actually has proposed social group, and clarify values \u200b\u200band goals for the vast numbers of people, of course, for the benefit of those who controlled it. Propaganda State, and now less a more powerful church, started to replace some (but certainly not most) of brute force for leniency and superficial concepts such as citizenship and democracy. When approaching dawn of modernity, things became really sick.
During the development of civilization, technology has always played an expanding role. In fact, the development of civilization has always been directly linked to and driven by the development of complex, efficient and innovative technologies. It is difficult to say whether the technology supports civilization or vice-versa. Technology, as a civilization, is better seen as a process or a complex system, rather than physical form. In essence, involves the division of labor, resource extraction and exploitation of power (those owned technology). Linking a result of technology is always stolen, and hard-mediated reality. No, technology is neutral. Values \u200b\u200band objectives of those who produce and control technology are always embedded in it. Different from simple tools, technology is connected to a larger process, which is contagious and is driven forward its own cadence. This technological system is always evolving, and must always inventing new ways to promote, fulfill, keep and sell. An important part of modern techno-capitalist structure is industrialism; mechanized production system based on centalizovanej power and exploitation of people and nature. Industrialism can not exist without genocide, and imperialism ekocídy. To sustain it is accepted by coercion, eviction from their own land, forced labor, cultural devastation, assimilation, ecological devastation and global trade and looks at it as a necessity. Standardization of life because of industrialism that portrays life and reshaping, seeing all life as a potential source. Industrialism and technology have opened the door to complete the domestication of life - the final stage of civilization - the age of neo-life.
So now we are in a postmodern, neo-liberal, biotechnology, cyberrealite apocalyptic future with a new world order. Can it be worse? Or was it always so bad? We are almost totally domesticated, except for those few moments (Riot, crawling through the night because of the destruction of machinery or infrastructure of civilization, the connection with other species, swimming naked in a mountain stream, eating wild food, making love to ... add your own favorite activity), which captured a glimpse of what it would be like to be wild again. Their "global village" is a global rather than a theme park or the zoo global, and it is a question of boycott, because we have it all, and she is equally in all of us. And we can not easily escape from our own cages (although we are powerless, whereas in fact we do not), but we have to smash this place vyjebané, feast at the zoo administrators and those who benefit from it, reconnect with our instincts and become wild again! Civilization we can not reform, greener it or make it more fair. It is rotten to the ground. We do not need more ideology, morality, fundamentalism or better organization that saved us. We must save ourselves. We live by our own desires. We need to connect with ourselves, with those for whom we care and the rest of life. We must be free and destroy this reality.
action is needed.
In short, civilization is waging war with life. We are fighting for their lives a preto vyhlasujeme vojnu civilizácii!
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