John Zerzan

Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government…

— John Zerzan

“People are not more connected, despite the billions in ads from the IT companies. Why call it community? It's just technology. The…

— John Zerzan

We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

— John Zerzan

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

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

— John Zerzan

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a…

— John Zerzan

We don't need more stupid ideas.

— John Zerzan

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so…

— John Zerzan

If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so…

— John Zerzan

If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with…

— John Zerzan

We have the freedom to choose between brand A, brand B, and brand C. That´s about it for freedom.

— John Zerzan

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

— John Zerzan

I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.

— John Zerzan

Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction…

— John Zerzan

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

— John Zerzan

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

— John Zerzan

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and…

— John Zerzan

I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

— John Zerzan

“God first created silence: whole, indivisible, complete. All creatures--man, woman, beast, insect, bird, and fish--lived happily together with this silence until one…

— John Zerzan

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

— John Zerzan

The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus…

— John Zerzan

Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which…

— John Zerzan

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

— John Zerzan

“I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are…

— John Zerzan

A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself…

— John Zerzan