wilderness before the dawn

A journal primarily of anarcho-primitivist and philosophical Daoist thought. Commentary on current events informed by nature, non-domesticated human societies, and Dao.

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Nutritional and Agricultural Realities of Veganism

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Note: This is an excerpt from a post I posted on the Anarchoprimitivism subreddit with some important corrections. You can find the origina...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Scientific vs. Magical Thinking

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The text below is from a personal communication with a friend in a slightly revised form. It comes out of a discussion regarding the role of...
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Monday, February 2, 2015

Three Short Theses on Violence

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I. Primitivists need to jettison non-violence as an ideal. Hunter-gatherer cultures are too varied with respect to violence to safely form...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

The Ghost of Technology Future: A Review of Black Mirror

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Note: The following review was originally published by FC Journal , which is now defunct, so I've reproduced the review here. The Brit...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Extolling the Human Scale in the Dao De Jing

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Here are two passages from the Dao De Jing that summarize the importance of the human scale, which is characterized by insularity and rejec...
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Friday, December 12, 2014

On Defining the Natural

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Of central importance to anarcho-primitivist and Daoist thought is the concept of nature. Without the distinction between, say, technology, ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

The Appeal of the Islamic State to Westerners and the Fallout from Techno-Scale Reality

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The ascension of the extremist Islamist group known variously as the Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL, or Da'esh, shocked most Westerners with ...
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