Primitivism is a totalitarian ideology. They go beyond just wanting to control what you think--but want to make certain kinds of thinking impossible.
I suspect that many people who are attracted to the ideology have not complicated it's logical consequences.
Misanthropy does not require a concern for ecology. Nor vice versa. Though for some people that overlaps like a Venn diagram. You could toss anarchism into that Venn diagram as well.
People don't need to be nice to be anarchists. Being nice is generally helpful for people getting along and contributing to our collective niceness... but anarchism doesn't require any fundamental change in what makes people human. Arguably, statelesss communal societies have been the predominant social organization among human beings for the last 200,000 years or so--with considerable conflict with exploitive states for the last 10,000 to 500 years depending on geographic location--however given that more people are now alive than have ever been alive and most of them do not live in anarchies... but I'm babbling.
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Date: 2009-12-02 04:46 pm (UTC)I suspect that many people who are attracted to the ideology have not complicated it's logical consequences.
Misanthropy does not require a concern for ecology. Nor vice versa. Though for some people that overlaps like a Venn diagram. You could toss anarchism into that Venn diagram as well.
People don't need to be nice to be anarchists. Being nice is generally helpful for people getting along and contributing to our collective niceness... but anarchism doesn't require any fundamental change in what makes people human. Arguably, statelesss communal societies have been the predominant social organization among human beings for the last 200,000 years or so--with considerable conflict with exploitive states for the last 10,000 to 500 years depending on geographic location--however given that more people are now alive than have ever been alive and most of them do not live in anarchies... but I'm babbling.