I guess you could call anarcho-primitivism the lifestyle of going back to the land without a need for central authority. I feel that if we go back to the land, we will actually care for it again. We will not look it as something to pave or to raise cheap beef on. It shuns the need for a control mechanism because every other species in the known world does not have one. We embrace freedom and not tighter and tighter control. We’re starting to get on the right track. But we’re still operating within the system. The domination and exploitation system. But once we can break out of the system entirely and start building the natural lives us humans were meant to live, then we can finally be happy and fulfilled.
People in today’s society are never satisfied with anything. They always strive for better, newer, cooler. Whoever dies with the most toys wins. Not only that, but the newest toys. You’re not going to win that game with thousands of ball-in-a-cups. But sometimes the simple playthings bring the most joy. Maybe the ball-in-a-cup is better than an iPod Nano 60GB. It’s much simpler to make and hardly has any ecological footprint. Why are we the only species who keeps having to get better and better items and tools? Why do we feel it’s necessary to have nuclear bombs that can blow up an entire region of the world? When will the pathology stop? When will we reach our equilibrium where we can just stay there for the rest of our time on this planet?
Will it ever be enough? Or will we consume our way through the entire universe? We need to go back to not just a sustainable way of living, but a way of living that is self-enhancing. We live off the land in simple shelters with simple tools. We may or may not grow our own food, but if we do it’s not to the extent of these monoculture farms we see and think about whenever we hear the words corn or soy. We make survival our number one task and we spend the rest of our time playing and slacking off. That’s what all other biological life does. Even the dolphins and elephants do it. We view animals as stupid for not building great empires like we did. Maybe they had more foresight than we did. Maybe they already know it is all going to collapse anyway, so why put generation after generation through the simulation called civilization? They see that the world is a beautiful place and it is their home and only a species that is suffering from some sort of psychiatric condition would want to destroy it. We can learn a lot from those we regard as “below us.”
We don’t have to go back in our thinking. We just have to go back in our reality to a simpler world. A world that doesn’t need central control and can survive in harmony by itself. A world where depletion and extraction are looked down upon and enhancing and revitalizing is the moral way. This, and only this, justifies the human existence. We aren’t here to destroy the planet. We’re not some cancer. But we’re acting like one right now. The Human as Cancer theory. Think of how cancer attacks other cells and kills them by extracting their livelihood. What do you think those skyscrapers are? They’re big, jagged tumors on the face of the Earth. The pavement is some kind of psoriasis. Dry skin. Dead skin.
We just go back to living like our ancestors and see how it goes. We keep trying things that are beneficial to both us and the whole, not just us. We stop the pathological path of destruction and start constructing. We become like every other species on the planet. We accept our roles as stewards of the Earth, not exploiters. We protect our home instead of destroy it. We live our own ways, but only in constructive ways. We make as little impact as possible. We drop the whole ego notion and just become part of the fabric of consciousness. We live for the moment and strive to make the next moment better. It’s a simple life, but a great one. And it’s possible, but who knows when.
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