John Zerzan Quotes

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• If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again
• Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
• We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace…
• 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…
• We have the freedom to choose between brand A, brand B, and brand C. That´s about it for freedom.
• The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.
• A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness…
• We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.
• It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the…
• We don't need more stupid ideas.
• Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology,…

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