"Culture has lead us to betray our own……" — 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 is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption."
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11 Quotes by John Zerzan
John Zerzan has 11 quotes on this site.
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If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to…
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Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
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We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful…
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We have the freedom to choose between brand A, brand B, and brand C. That´s about it for freedom.
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The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.
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A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another.…
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We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.
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It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which…
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We don't need more stupid ideas.
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Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches…
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