Post-Civilization
To be remarkably brief, Post-Civilization is a political and social theory that is built from the following:
1 – This civilization is, from its foundation, unsustainable. It
probably cannot be salvaged, and, what’s more, it would be
undesirable to do so.
2 – It is neither possible, nor desirable, to return to a pre-
civilized state of being.
3 – It is therefore desirable to imagine and enact a post-
civilized culture.
For others, it might be simplest to understand that we are green anarchists who do not outright reject technology or mediation, who do not fetishize pre-civilized methods of survival.
For those whom none of the above made any sense, let me say it this way: we believe in radical sustainability – we want to create a society that can actually continue. And we want that society to be egalitarian, that is, a society of equals. We don’t believe in the myth that this civilization represents the pinnacle of human achievement, nor do we believe in the myth that pinnacle of human culture was when we were nomadic hunter-gatherers. We believe that the future can be awesome, if we make it awesome.
I feel like I’m “soiling” this post but…are you influenced by Ran Prieur or Charles Eisenstein? Who influences your world view?
BTW, Google “post civilization” has you at #1.
A very intelligent point of view.
I sympathize with your, our cause, that the foe, usury capitalism, is a black hole, that will stop only after devouring the world, and putting the beasts who benefit from its mechanisms on the top of a food chain that will die out, or so it appears.
My disagreement with primatavism is based on a simple point: the Sun will eventually die, and long before it does, all species on the planet will be destroyed.
Civilization as it stands is a monstrosity, and we need to create a very different way of being. That said, if we shuck the development of Technology, no matter how much we love mother Gaia, all life on this planet has around 1-2 billion years left.
Space Travel, not as an alienated departure from a destroyed and consumed planet, but rather as a natural growth beyond the terrestrial boundaries of our birth home, is necessary at some point.
This won’t happen without technology.
So, Primatavists, at the root, are short sighted and suicidal. They may want to return to a natural state, but that natural state wont’ last forever.
Mark, they don’t oppose technology outright. They said so on this very page.