The Adventures of Urban Scout

I love my friend Jason Godesky. I mean, in a platonic way, of course (no worries Penny Scout!). For me, Ishmael felt like enough to change my mind. I didn’t really need to read anthropological text and work through the civilized bullshit. Though, when it comes time to challenge the civilized I often feel at a loss… “Where did you hear those facts?!?” They want to know. For me, the philosophy of rewilding just makes sense from my own observations about the world and civilization. I don’t need to memorize the hard archeological data to presume that life before civilization felt better and didn’t destroy the planet. A simple course on agriculture and human prehistory did the trick. But when civilizations mythmaking assholes twist the facts to make me look like a dipshit, I never know what to say… But Jason does. And that reveals why I love him so much. Recently civilized assholes went to work in the classic civilized asshole filled rag called “The Economist” to make people like Jason and I into fuck-tards. Jason has spent years debunking the false mythology in the current article and so cut together a rebuttal that hopefully feels like a kick in the nuts to anyone who bought into “The Economists” bullshit.

Part One

Part Two