Comments on: The Mid-Apocalypse Review: Indigenous Edition http://anthropik.com/2006/10/the-mid-apocalypse-review-indigenous-edition/ se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenki Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:31:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Oh my God! Something GOOD Happened! (The Anthropik Network) http://anthropik.com/2006/10/the-mid-apocalypse-review-indigenous-edition/#comment-35476 Oh my God! Something GOOD Happened! (The Anthropik Network) Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:41:16 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/the-mid-apocalypse-review-indigenous-edition/#comment-35476 [...] The Gana and Gwi Bushmen have done the unthinkable: after the longest and most expensive court case in Botswana's history, they have officially KICKED ASS AND CHEWED BUBBLEGUM. And they did it without that little bitch, Leonardo DiCaprio. I guess that's what you kind of have to come to expect from the people that lived for hundreds of thousands of years, surviving the Bantu expansion and European colonialism, in the freaking Kalahari Desert. [...] […] The Gana and Gwi Bushmen have done the unthinkable: after the longest and most expensive court case in Botswana’s history, they have officially KICKED ASS AND CHEWED BUBBLEGUM. And they did it without that little bitch, Leonardo DiCaprio. I guess that’s what you kind of have to come to expect from the people that lived for hundreds of thousands of years, surviving the Bantu expansion and European colonialism, in the freaking Kalahari Desert. […]

]]> By: Jason Godesky http://anthropik.com/2006/10/the-mid-apocalypse-review-indigenous-edition/#comment-26333 Jason Godesky Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:30:19 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/the-mid-apocalypse-review-indigenous-edition/#comment-26333 <blockquote>I consider myself free of most civilised concepts</blockquote> Eek, there's the pride that usually goes before the fall there, Dan. You need to understand you'll never be completely free of civilized thinking. You were raised in it, it can't be any other way. But that's OK. That does mean you can never be wild again—but you <em>can</em> become feral.

I consider myself free of most civilised concepts

Eek, there’s the pride that usually goes before the fall there, Dan. You need to understand you’ll never be completely free of civilized thinking. You were raised in it, it can’t be any other way. But that’s OK. That does mean you can never be wild again—but you can become feral.

]]> By: Dan http://anthropik.com/2006/10/the-mid-apocalypse-review-indigenous-edition/#comment-26132 Dan Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:18:18 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/the-mid-apocalypse-review-indigenous-edition/#comment-26132 Man, that I want 2 go home site is heart wrenching. Informative post, if not completely depressing. Us suburban honkies can sure as hell re-wild (probably in strange and new ways), and yeah we definately need to forget any notion of purity, it's ridiculous. "<em>I think that it's quite possible that the only human beings with a chance are those who have not been tainted by domestication.</em>" Maybe. I consider myself free of most civilised concepts (despite still living at the heart of civilisation), and a lot of my friends are well on their way. But we still live civilised. Younger kids are catching on fast - I see them as our biggest hope. John Landau wrote an essay a while back, which is in Zerzan's "Against Civilization" book. It's online <a href="http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1319240&lastnode_id=85967" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and it's a personal favourite: "Our job is to reinvent primal peoples! Through our imagination and what little we do know there is no evidence against such group movement. We must imagine these primeval peoples, in order to create an incredible myth in order to live it, to become it!" Man, that I want 2 go home site is heart wrenching. Informative post, if not completely depressing.

Us suburban honkies can sure as hell re-wild (probably in strange and new ways), and yeah we definately need to forget any notion of purity, it’s ridiculous.

“I think that it’s quite possible that the only human beings with a chance are those who have not been tainted by domestication.”

Maybe. I consider myself free of most civilised concepts (despite still living at the heart of civilisation), and a lot of my friends are well on their way. But we still live civilised. Younger kids are catching on fast - I see them as our biggest hope.

John Landau wrote an essay a while back, which is in Zerzan’s “Against Civilization” book. It’s online here, and it’s a personal favourite:

“Our job is to reinvent primal peoples! Through our imagination and what little we do know there is no evidence against such group movement. We must imagine these primeval peoples, in order to create an incredible myth in order to live it, to become it!”

]]> By: Jason Godesky http://anthropik.com/2006/10/the-mid-apocalypse-review-indigenous-edition/#comment-25391 Jason Godesky Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:03:20 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/the-mid-apocalypse-review-indigenous-edition/#comment-25391 We're suburban honkies, too. We may never be wild again, but we can certainly become feral. Forget this notion of "purity"—it doesn't exist in the real world. The question is whether it's passable. Humans live today everywhere from the Kalahari to the Arctic, in places cockroaches fear to tread. We're definitely passable. We’re suburban honkies, too. We may never be wild again, but we can certainly become feral. Forget this notion of “purity”—it doesn’t exist in the real world. The question is whether it’s passable. Humans live today everywhere from the Kalahari to the Arctic, in places cockroaches fear to tread. We’re definitely passable.

]]> By: casemeau http://anthropik.com/2006/10/the-mid-apocalypse-review-indigenous-edition/#comment-25362 casemeau Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:23:17 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/the-mid-apocalypse-review-indigenous-edition/#comment-25362 I think I qualify as a suburban honkie trying to figure it all out again from scratch! And I have wondered myself if <i>any</i> domesticated humans, even the smartest and most prepared, stand a chance of keeping the species alive into future generations. I think that it's quite possible that the <i>only </i>human beings with a chance are those who have not been tainted by domestication. If so, it might be lucky, because they may never get the crazy idea to start doing huge agriculture. Those of us who grew up in huge agriculture might find it difficult to purge the idea from every remaining mind. I think I qualify as a suburban honkie trying to figure it all out again from scratch! And I have wondered myself if any domesticated humans, even the smartest and most prepared, stand a chance of keeping the species alive into future generations. I think that it’s quite possible that the only human beings with a chance are those who have not been tainted by domestication. If so, it might be lucky, because they may never get the crazy idea to start doing huge agriculture. Those of us who grew up in huge agriculture might find it difficult to purge the idea from every remaining mind.

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