#Primitivist

[art1for2the3masses]

Henri Rousseau - Jungle with Setting Sun [c.1910]

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector.

[imagella-blog]

Ethnisches Tattoo des Auges mit Blumenmotiven

Drittes Auge Tattoo #ethnisches Tattoo #Augenmotiv #Blumenmuster #helles Schwarz #Aquamarin #biomorph #celestialpunk #Primitivist #Fresken #tonganische Kunst

[subjectivecuriosities]

My ★★★★★ review of Pom Poko (1994) on @letterboxd: https://boxd.it/4SUciL

[dj-of-the-coven]

what the average layperson tends to misunderstand is that venn diagram of tech enthusiasts and people who are good with electronics are practically 2 separate circles and the better you get with technology the more likely you are to shoot an iphone with a gun. for example my shithead father has been programming radios since he was old enough to use a fuckin screwdriver and he has a statue in his office of a smartphone being stabbed with a hunting knife. being descended from said shithead I am not different in the way that I plan to major in IT and I hiss like a vampire in sunlight whenever someone asks me to scan a QR code

[kazimirkharza]

Had a little chat with Artxmis from the Uncivilized Podcast recently. We discussed my thoughts on Kaczynski's idea of the anti-tech revolution, my "Myth of Human Weakness" essay, and the sociopolitical state of the Balkans. Give it a listen.

[sun-death]

Primitivists are prone to trotting a litany of claims about the lives of hunter gatherers. They were happier. They were super healthy Adonises. They had sex all the time. They even saw the moons of Saturn with their bare eyes. It’s like a commercial for a new toothpaste. If they could find a way to claim primitivism will make people’s penises bigger I’m sure they’d try. These claims can of course be disputed — in terms of how cherry-picked their examples are, how inherently specious anthropological accounts of ‘happiness’ are, how they cavalierly dismiss horrors like hunger, and to what degree primitive life’s success along these metrics can be superseded through other means — but I think this is the wrong approach. I don’t really care whether living as a primitive will give me a bigger cock. Why should we care about these superficialities? If mere happiness was the totality of our aspirations we could simply hook ourselves up in vats of heroin.

William Gillis, "A Quick and Dirty Critique of Primitivist and Anti-Civ Thought"

[angelwoof]

if i had a penis i would frequently be going deep into the woods to cum on trees

[dead-generations]

The funniest thing about Democrat loyalists is that they seem to not know how opposition parties operate in nearly every other liberal democracy so they perform hilarious apologia for the most incredible incompetence and cowardice ever on the basis that its just how things get done.

[montymollusk]

i refuse to look at knitting patterns i refuse to learn how to crochet Do Not Look At Me

[art1for2the3masses]

Mercedes Barba Álvarez (1923-2018), "Celebrando un Santo", c.198?

Celebrating a saint

[imagella-blog]

Ethnisches Tattoo eines Auges mit floralen Motiven

Drittes Auge Tattoo #ethnisches Tattoo #Augenmotiv #Blumenmuster #helles Schwarz #Aquamarin #biomorph #celestialpunk #Primitivist #Fresken #tonganische Kunst

[robogirldick]

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[fagcrisis]

okay now this bit is bullshit though

[sylwanin-was-right]

The "Three Laws of Eywa" simply dont exist to me andkflallflskakdl

[kazimirkharza]

so I’ve not really heard of anarchoprimitivism before, and I’m sort of confused. When you say you’re against civilization - what does that encompass? I think of civilization as a broad catch-all term for human beings in a shared culture, I guess? With social institutions, communication, art and science and the intersection of those being craftsmanship/technology I suppose. But maybe you’re defining civilization more narrowly? or thinking of one specific part of it?

Most people accept one of two definitions of civilization. One is a very broad and sloppy term for any kind of human culture or society, the other actually has a very specific meaning; derived from the Latin word "civitas," meaning city, "civilization" refers to a society comprised of cities, or characterised by the presence of cities.

Primitivists like myself use the second definition. For us civilization is a city-type society with all its components (social and material relations). We argue that such society is offensive to human dignity and freedom, and inherently ecologically unfeasible. We're not referring to any specific part of it, because it's all a deeply interconnected system in which the "good" bits cannot be separated from the "bad" ones.

[sun-death]

We have always lied, withheld information, manipulated, positioned, threatened, and used physical force to constrain and direct each other’s options. Power relations followed us to the cities, but the history of our war with them is not a clean arc. We do not live in the belly of an all-encompassing beast. Rather our lives are found moment by moment on the edges of crossed swords. We are swirling in an intensely complicated and vast battlefield. The great connectivity of cosmopolitan urbanity is one of anarchy’s greatest victories. It has drawn our enemies like locusts. But to retreat, fall apart and scatter to the wind — to be run down and cornered alone once again by more attentive power relations in small tribes with fewer avenues of escape — is to abandon all hope or pretense of resistance.

William Gillis, "A Quick and Dirty Critique of Primitivist and Anti-Civ Thought"