That, apparently was part of the message at the 9th annual Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival (No, I was not in attendance; my invitation must have been lost).
Among the hippies there was a table for the “Coalition Against Civilization”, which advances such ideas as “anarcho-primitivism”. The whole thing is kinda funny because the ideas are so far out there. I just had to link to it because it was in C-Ville.
Howard McEwen Says:
I ran into a few of these people in college. They always ate bean burritos and what nots. I always thought it was an ideaology designed to allow them to skip showers.
dymphna Says:
Thanks for posting on that. The veggy festival has been going on
for about nine years or so…the Baron wandered into it because he
went to the downtown library to get me some reading material for my
convalescence from a fall.
Years and years ago he tutored a grad engineering student who had
run afoul of diffy q’s. I, personally, wouldn’t know a differential
equation if it came up and started talking to me.
We have family that went to Clemson. Chemistry PhD. Maybe our
youngest will end up there when he’s done his undergrad work.
Did you hear about the Sorensen Institute’s Virginia Blogger Conference
last month? It was the dumbest, most poorly organized event I’ve
seen in ages. Looked like most of them were realtors even though it was
supposed to be for political blogs. I recognized one of them on the
list.
It made me decide to try for a *real* Va bloggers conference next
year…one with some meat on it. We’re going to something called “Southern
Convergence” in Greensboro next month — see if we can get some
pointers.
Hope this comment isn’t too whacked. The margins run into the sidebar
so I have to guess at what I’m typing at the ends of the lines.
Have discovered several other Ch’ville bloggers, or nearby, anyway.
One is a chef in town. Another is on Tigerhawk –Charlottesvillain.
I forget the others. But I think there are enough of them to hold some
kind of get-together…
nobrainer Says:
Thanks for dropping by.
I’m not so much sure that I am a blogger as much as someone who has a blog. Inasmuch I hope to not be taken too seriously most of the time.
Thanks for the note about the comment box margins. I had never been aware of it. But lo and behold, once I looked at it in IE it wasn’t right… one more thing to fix this weekend.
I can respect the anti-establishment types wanting to fight against illegitimate powers… but anarcho-primitivism is really just another word for communist. The theme that ties all these “anarcho-” isms together is that they all want to destroy capitalism.
I find it odd that the closest economic and social analog to natural selection and nature (capitalism) is hated by these groups who purport to love nature. I also feel that these people are more in love with an ideal romantic notion of nature and not the ACTUAL reality. Furthermore, if we did revert back to a primitive lifestyle, people would be so preoccupied with finding life’s neccessities that there would be very little time for contemplation about culture, civilization, anarchism and the like. Would you rather worship sun gods or send a satellite to study the sun? Why would you want to ratchet yourself backwards on Maslow’s hierarchy? I don’t want to call people names, but the word “idiot” comes to mind. Damnit Nobrainer, these posts make me “weep for the future.”