Hunter-Gatherer Wannabe With A Blog
Dear Diary,
Well, looks like the History Channel dropped my interview for their apocalypse show… I knew I shouldn’t have binged on all those frosted Circus Animal, animal crackers! Oh well. I keep getting bites from TV people, but no catches yet. I just don’t understand. When will I get my big break? Geez. I feel like such a whiny douchebag. Well, at least some nice folks put a few bucks in my tip jar. Thanks to Carrie and John.
Continue reading ‘W61,62,63: Reading, Writing and Rewilding’
My triumphant return to filmmaking.
The English language, quite literally, came from nowhere. No native people spoke it, not even the English. It works as a conglomeration of languages, a mish-mash made for one purpose; trade. If languages provide us with a context with which to see the world, than English programs people to see the living world through the lens of exploitation: trees as dollar bills or animals as units of meat, humans as slaves. English tells us from the moment we utter our first word to our last that the world exists for one purpose; commerce.
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My friend William made this after I told him about the ants that have started attacking civilization and I had to pass it on:
Philosophically I loathe pacifism, because instinctively, I would never even consider it. Yet, reflexively I enact pacifism when attacked, threatened or intimidated. After practicing something long enough, you can re-train your reflexes. I have pacifist values, not because I want to or chose to, but because of my training from early childhood in civilization and specifically, in school. We learn to never fight back or we will receive worse than what we gave. This training needs to stop, now. We need to rewild our relationship to violence.
Who can live with a light heart while participating in a global slaughter that makes the Nazi holocaust look like a limbering-up exercise?
- Daniel Quinn in Providence
The more time I spend at my job, the easier it gets to ignore my pain. I can shut it off and let my body function. I can remove all external thought and simply become part of the machine, pushing a button over and over and over again, lulling my heart back to sleep with rhythmic clockwork.
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On Sunday I was interviewed on the topic of rewilding by Adam and Robert on their radio show Free Range Thought, along with my friend John Sweeney from Growth Is Madness, who is doing a population growth series with them.
This Lolcat idea came from my friends Jana, Willem and Mr. Sweetey.
For the most part, I consider myself an optimist. I find it funny that a lot of people label me as a pessimist because I advocate for the collapse of civilization. When I say “civilization will collapse no matter what we do,” rather than see that as an opportunity for something new, they file it away under “doom and gloom.” I think these people have it all backwards.
That you so much everyone for your words of solidarity in my current state of depression. The best feeling in this state of depression doesn’t come from bullshit advice, but solidarity in feeling the pain of those around me. Thanks for that. It feels good to not feel this pain alone. So, thank you thank you thank you! And thank you to Jason, David and Christine for throwing some much needed cash into my tip jar.
Depression ain’t just for the economy. It sucks. I haven’t felt this depressed since age 20. At least, I haven’t felt noticeably this depressed since age 20. Age 21-24 I self-medicated using alcohol and cigarettes so I can’t clearly say what I felt during that time. But now, I don’t medicate at all, legal, illegal, prescribed or otherwise. I drink coffee for the occasional boost, like right now, in order to write this.
You’re right. I’ve gotten really sick of writing, and this is just a ploy to pass the time until my writers block passes (probably four weeks from now when my job ends!). Write an essay under 500 words in length on your topic Vs. Rewilding. It can be sincere, ironic or absurd, just make it good!I will select my favorite three who will win an award or prize of some kind… Perhaps a lifetime membership to the Urban Scout Cool Kids Club. I’ll make little badges or certificates you can frame or something. You have one week! Please send them to urbanscout (at) gmail (dot) com with the subject “rewild challenge.” You have until Sunday May 4th.
Humans have a long history of teaching social taboos through jokes irony, sarcasm, and mockery showing us what we do not find as acceptable behavior. Such comic geniuses as Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David know this too well, their narcissistic characters always breaking social taboos and looking like assholes. In Farley Mowats “People of the Deer” I recall a moment where he drew a picture of a deer smoking a pipe, to which the intuits laughed hysterically! I think this kind of ridiculousness encapsulates the humor in irony and mockery. It has a kind of innocence to it; it looks silly for a deer to do human things, just as it looks silly for a human to mimic deer things. We laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation, whether we see a deer smoking a pipe or Larry David not bringing a gift to Ben Stiller’s birthday party.
Good ‘ay mate, if you live in Australia check out the new issue of Chain Reaction, the national Friends of the Earth Australia magazine. I adapted my Agriculture Vs. Rewilding chapter for an article in it called “Rewilding Food Systems.” If you can’t find a copy of the magazine you can read it online here.
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