I was browsing Wikipedia earlier when I stumbled across an article about something called Anarcho-Primitivism. Here is a link to the article. For those of you too lazy or too busy to read it (and yet you have time and energy to devote to my blog on nexopia for some reason), here's a quick synopsis. Anarcho-primitivists believe that with the advent of agricultural societies, we essentially lost our humanity and governments started taking over our minds and restricting us and controlling us and taking away our rights and equality. They assert that the hunter-gatherer way of life was how humans were meant to live, and that returning to that way of life would be the best course for our species and our planet.

I've actually been thinking about this recently, without any real prompting from things that have been happening around me, just because I was considering my political beliefs. I haven't realized it until just now, but apparently I am an anarcho-primitivist in theory. I say in theory because besides the fact that I don't give two shits about political ideals and less than that about politics in general (because they bore me, confuse me, and aggravate me, and I think that's the whole point). In practice, as far as governing a "mass culture" as these anarchists might say, I am all over the map. I'm a National Socialist Liberal Feudalist, and if that seems like a contradiction to you then it probably is, because I have put no thought into that label and it will change by tomorrow I imagine.

But the idea of going back to a hunter-gatherer way of life is intriguing. There is a stigma towards our earliest of ancestors nowadays, that they lived in complete ignorance of luxury, had no concept of language or fashion and did not have the basic motor skills necessary to even protect themselves from the elements. In short, all scholars agree (that's an oxymoron) that that perception is complete bullshit. If any scholars don't agree, please step forward now to be ridiculed, because without language and protection from the elements we would not have survived for however long we survived before Rome, which seems to be the basis of the concept of civilization to most people for some sad reason.

Actually, hunter-gatherer society was fairly advanced in some respects. Women, for example, have been fighting for rights under a civilized government for hundreds, arguably thousands of years now. In hunter-gatherer societies, women were equal. In civilized society, people work for other people that they don't even know as a minute cog in a gigantic industrial wheel for a cause they neither care nor know about, whereas in a hunter-gatherer society, people worked to survive and to help their families survive, and they did it because they had to and wanted to, rather than because they were forced to. In a civilized society, wars are started because of reasons like the economy and religious differences (actually, there are very few wars started only because of religious differences). In a hunter-gatherer society, war is undesirable and therefore uncommon. Certainly organized warfare was out of the question, since tribes could not band together for fear of overpopulation, which would be unsustainable without agriculture.

So in short, hunter-gatherers had a fun time while we civilized folk plod along having a miserable existence trying to scrape a living for and from people we don't care about.

That sounds nice, in theory, but I'll repeat something that Wikipedia said. In order to revert back to a hunter-gatherer society, it would be necessray to wipe out probably about 90% of the world's human population. And here we hit our first major snag. This is not going to happen anytime soon (we hope), and it's certainly not going to happen because everyone in the world suddenly agrees that anarcho-primitivism is the way to do it.

So in short, my entire point is, why the fuck (excuse my French) do people even bother going around calling themselves anarcho-primitivisim? Sure it's a nice thought, but so is having the ability to fly or going to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy or believing that aliens created the pyramids so that they have a map to return to Earth in the year 2012 and reward the people who believed in them by giving them telekinetic powers and a brand new Mustang convertible, and people who go around trying to flap their arms to fly or cast Fellatio Cunnilingus with their magic wands or wear tin foil hats that say "alienz cum here plz" are all retarded and should be locked up for being retarded. They may say 'oh but we have this theory...' but we can tell them, 'well your theory is impossible, not to mention stupidly impossible, and did we say impossible, so go bother someone else.' Anarcho-primitivism is a really, really, stupid thing to dedicate ones life to. If a massive disease wipes out 90% of the earth (or the aliens come because they notice the pyramids and give 90% of the earth Mustangs which are faulty and blow up that many people simeoultaneously), then we can all go back to being happy hunter-gatherers. But for now? Shut up and get a job, you're not going to change anything by writing books and posting blogs and... oh.

I'm done.











PS: I'd like to point out something funny about the Wikipedia article.



So anarcho-primitivists don't believe in symbology and objectification, hmm? Then why do they have a flag for their political ideology?