The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness.… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
“People are not more connected, despite the billions in ads from the IT companies. Why call it community? It's just technology. The machines are… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
We have the freedom to choose between brand A, brand B, and brand C. That´s about it for freedom. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
