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1. Why This Pamphlet is being Written
The Primitivist Alignment
Unabomber Manifesto
Under Pressure
Spiral of Alienation And Decline
Move Forwards, or Die?
Sour grapes?
2. What is Primitivism?
Progress
Doublemindedness
Marginalised Malcontents
Picking the Scabs
Transcendence
Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Be Like Ted
Icon of Sacrifice
Substitute Religion
Consequences
3. The Preliminary Orientation: Moderning, Postmodernism and Primitivism
The labyrinthine basement beneath the New Age Cybercafe
Alienation
Crisis
Herbert Marcuse
One Dimensional Man
Machine, Technology, Problems
Millennium Showdown
Schadenfreude
Duty of Care
A Developed World Counsel of Despair
No Social Dimension
Strategy of Obscurity
The ‘So What’ Counter Move
The Straw Man Returns
Double Aspect
Ideology
No Air From An Alien Planet
Paradox
Bi-polarity
Ideology or Egology?
Ideological product placement
Modernism
Postmodernism
Primitivism
Raiding the Rat Maze
4. Zerzan, FC and Moore: Three Mandarin Primitivist Thinkers
Twilight of the Idols
John Zerzan
Defective Methodology
Derivative
Marcuse
Destructive
One Dimensional Zerzan
Hot Delicious — Cold Disgusting
Who is the real Zerzan?
On Technology
Against the Supposed Neutrality of Technology
On Literature
On Art
Speculative
Epimenides The Cretan Rides Again
On Language
Veil of Symbols
The Fifth Bulkhead
The Eternal Return
Unabomber
The Road to Good Intentions Leads to the Dustbin of History
Despair
Gloomy Despair
John Moore
Primitivist Spirituality
Defining Primitivism
Surrender To The Land
Blood and Soil?
Form or Content?
The Four Hypotheses of the Apocalypse
Moore’s Postmodernism
Disatisfaction
5. Ten Principal Themes or Features of Primitivism
1. The rejection of civilization, industrialization and progress
The system as an Entity
Implicit Totalitarianism
Progress
All or Nothing?
2. Anthropology, the ‘Primitive Affluence’ thesis
Stone Age Economics
Three Primal Streams
Against the Hobbesian Myth
’Profoundest night of non-being’
Primitive Confusion
3. Primitivist spirituality. Mythology, pan-psychism, and New Age beliefs
Taoism
Feral Fault-Line
Grandfather Rabbit
Mumbo Jumbo?
Primal Religions
Totem and Taboo
Nascent Cult
4. The critique of mass society and ‘leftism’
Unabomber
Bob Black
Shibboleths
Patronage and Pastiche
Rivalry
5. Zero Work
Fully Unemployed
Ludic
Indolence
Return to Croatan
Workplace Stress
Getting Stuck In....
Work is a Four Letter Word
Sack the Lunch-Outs
6. Technology as an enmeshed system that enslaves
A Dictatorship of Test Tubes
Within The Net
Interconnected Whole
Dystopia
Four Legs Good — Two Bad ...
Selective Use of Evidence
Meeting The Challenge
7. Hostility to Ideology, the denial that Primitivism is an Ideology
A Competitive Edge in the Market-Place of Ideas
An Open Door?
Ideological Conflict
More Dreary Ideology
Outflanking
Refusal of Ideology
Archimedian Point
Sign of Hope
8. Primitivist hostility to Postmodernism
Floating, Shimmering Goal-Posts
Abolition of the Self
Shipwrecked Hulk
Ludic
Essentially, the Same Destination
Taking Po-mo One Stage Further
For Sale — One Dialectical Myth
Reason
Status of The Primitivist Individual
The Vultures Circle
Deep Ecology
Pseudo-Radicals
Kulturkampf
9. Hostility to symbolization
Language Is All
I Can’t Get Started
Running on Emptiness
Consolation
Great Cartesian Anxiety
Postmodern Symptoms
Leap of Faith
Pan Psychism
Language merges into Style
Double-Coding
Reification
10. Poetry and myth
Origins Fallacy
Genealogy of Error
Hardcore Versus Softcore
Attention to Content?
Paradigm Lost
Reclaim The Spiritual
Bewilderness
Effing the Ineffable
Flattening the Wall
Lovebite
Postmodern
Not My Project
6. Some Legitimate and Illegitimate Criticisms of Primitivism
Manichean
Nature Good — Technology Bad
False Accusations of Eco-Malthusianism
Green Apocalypse
Bad Faith
Black Flag
Malthusian Coercion
Class Dogma Asserted
Moore Mangled
Misrepresentation
Zerzan
Swamp Fever
Watson Contra Moore
Jumping Off The Ship of Theseus
Trashing The Raft
Eternal Problem
Jason McQuinn
The Primitivist Assault on Ethics
Ought
The Ego and Its Own
Why Would Anybody Want to Join?
Cheap Shots
Cant
Zerzan’s Use of Language To Criticise Language
John Zerzan on Language
Are You Saussure?
Humpty Dumpty
Ownership
Language as Active
Concealment
Language as a Net
Consciousness, Loss
Romanticism
The Darker Side of Romanticism: Spengler, Junger and Heidegger
Caution Needed
Industrialization
Crawling With Worms
Pessimism
Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss
Domestication
Decisionism
Coldness of Technology
Heidegger the Nazi Fuhrer — Rector
Surrender to the Vortex
Heidegger and Technology
Mastery
Blind Alleys
Enframing
Turning
Primalism
Verdict
Technology
Reactionary Modernism?
Excavating The Land Fill
Tomb Raiders of the Lost Art
They want the prestige of science without the effort...
Pit of Vipers
The Vagueness Objection
7. So What is to Be Done?
Primitivism as Displacement Strategy
Primitivist Responses to this Pamphlet
Croatan is an Undesirable Destination
Our Need for a Positive Direction
Tomorrow is Already Here
A Modest Proposal
Multi-Dimensional, Parallel Processing
Visibility
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