/lit/ - Literature

>>22636114
He sounds good on paper, and I was taken with his thoughts for a time, but to look at it critically one can see the flaws.
Does he genuinely believe that every last person on Earth will turn to a primitive lifestyle, even knowing that it will see the majority of their number perish from food scarcity, because one man said that it was not so very good for the environment?
Invariably not, which is why most discussion around his school of thought concerns ecoterrorism. Even then, if anarchist ecoterrorists, not among the most organised ogfgroups, miraculously manage to destroy enough infrastructure to trigger a global collapse, what then for the extensive human infrastructure and development which presently exists?
Will the anarcho-primitivism fairy disappear it, along with the immense banks of recorded knowledge of all our progress to this point?
If not, there will exist groups who possess the remnants of this old technology, or rediscover it, and through its usage gain dominion over those who do not - ultimately leading to a resurgence of the societies he scorned, changed though they will be, which through their access to preserved knowledge will return to modernity faster than before.
This process would occur even in a supernatural scenario where all technology and its knowledge were wiped from the Earth, albeit slower. Dozens of millenia ago, we carried spears and danced around fires, and yet we now sit at computers and drive cars.
Does he intend for a 20,000 year cycle of mankind discovering technology, becoming diminished through its usage, inventing anarcho-primitivism, and utterly destroying global society to
People buy into his ideas because it presents a quick fix to problems which seem monoloithic and unchallengable for the individual.
Destroying modern society because it is flawed is a much more cathartic - not to mention comprehensible - idea than the detailed process of solving innumerable issues and problems through lasting reform that would accompany actual change.

Also of course, when approaching the subject of Anarcho-primitivism, you can't look beyond picrel
>But he wasn't doing true anarcho-primiti-
He was the closest we've gotten so far, and thus Year Zero is the best real life example to draw from when considering the application of anarcho-primitivism on a societal scale.

>>18892303
Anyone else absolutely hate academic speak? This is why I support anti intellectualism.