Tag: civilisation
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To Rust Metallic Gods: An Anarcho-Primitivist Critique of Paganism
Originally posted on hastenthedownfall: [Note: Appears in print in “Black & Green Review, Issue 1”, available from the Oldowan distro.] Most green anarchists of European ancestry have vehemently rejected the Abrahamic faiths of the Iron Age (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), for their divine hierarchies, their dominion theologies. And most as well the Axial Age faiths,…
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Roadkill; Roads Kill
A puddle of blood covered the road and its metallic smell wafted up and down the underpass. Cars whizzed by, and the short fuzzy fur billowed in the gusts of wind. The fox’s corpse lay motionless, still warm as I touched it. I noticed a car was coming towards me, so I immediately grabbed and…
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Not Allowed to Die
Under the boot of civilisation everything is such that it makes us want to quit life, but we’re simply not allowed to die. During a talk with Stephen Grosz, Slavoj Žižek told an anecdote of how he dealt with suicidal thoughts. He said he managed to postpone it long enough by saying to himself “OK,…
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The Myth of Human Weakness
This piece also appears in a zine by Civfucks Distro. There is a prevailing narrative within the walls of civilisation that humans are weak, frail and oversensitive creatures that would never have survived for so long, if it weren’t for our superior intelligence that has allowed us to create countless highly specific tools, and eventually…
Kazimir Kharza 