[D66] Future Primitive and Other Essays

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Future Primitive and Other Essays

Thesis

Future Primitive is an unequivocal assertion of the superiority of the 
hunter-gatherer lifestyle.[4] Zerzan rejects the thesis that time and 
technology are neutral scientific realities, arguing instead that they 
are carefully constructed means of enslaving people.[5] He cites as 
examples the computer and the Internet, which he maintains have an 
atomizing effect on society, creating novel divisions of labour, 
demanding ever increasing efficiency and portions of leisure time.[5] 
Life prior to domestication and agriculture, Zerzan argues, was 
predominantly one of "leisure, intimacy with nature, sensual wisdom, 
sexual equality and health".[6] In the Paleolithic era, as The Wall 
Street Journal summarized Zerzan's thesis, "people roamed free, lived 
off the land and knew little or nothing of private property, government, 
money, war, even sexism. In the wild, the shackles of civilization 
weren't necessary, as people were instinctively munificent and kind, the 
primitivist argument goes."[7]


John Zerzan
Country	United States
Subject	Anarcho-primitivism
Genre	Anthropology, political economy
Publisher	Autonomedia,
Anarchy: a Journal of Desire Armed
Publication date
	December 1, 1994
Media type	Paperback
Pages	192 pages
ISBN	1-57027-000-7
OCLC	30630861
Preceded by	Elements of Refusal
Followed by	Running on Emptiness