Reconsidered for today.

Rewilding Lecture at Washington College (2012 Peter Michael Bauer)

Boiled down, it’s pretty simple.

Agriculture = Civilization = Hierarchy = Inequality = Slavery = Domestication = Property

We call the whole shitpile Modern Progress and have largely lost the ability to imagine that any other way of living could possibly be better.

You may well speak to me of medicine and literature and hygiene and rocketships.

I may well stipulate the glories of all that, and yet still be compelled to feel, believe in, and utter the same words as before.

Anarchy Now.

It’s all very much dreamy and utopian and hopeless and I’ll stipulate that too.

But you don’t recycle because it will save the world. You do it because it’s the right thing.

My suggestion is just to expand upon that principle until it affects everything.

I started a coffee business this week.

Coffee is an agricultural product and not even grown within a thousand miles of here.

Naming such a business after the theory of anarcho-primitivism is a pretty twisted joke really.

Which won’t stop me from trying to succeed. Nor will it make me a hypocrite.

At least, not an unaware one.

Me and the Earth Mother dance a dance of relationship status: It’s complicated.