#anticiv

[catgirlanarchist]

imagine how much quicker and more efficient public transport would be if it didn't contain the bottleneck of paying fare at the front? if people could just shuffle on and find their seats instead of forming and waiting in a queue? if you could board the bus from the side door as well as the front door? imagine what better things those schmucks working fare enforcement could be doing with their lives.

imagine how much easier it would be for victims of domestic abuse if housing was free and guaranteed? if nobody was tied to their abuser through financial means and could just leave and start anew without fear of destitution? if childcare was a public resource given to everyone who has children instead of the sole responsibility of the two individuals that created the child?

imagine how many people we could feed if food was distributed directly for free as a matter of course instead of being shipped to stores to sit in purgatory on shelves until it's either bought, stolen, or thrown out because it didn't sell? imagine nobody ever having their life ruined because they were starving and shoplifted food to survive? imagine "shoplifting" (based as it may be now) becoming unheard of because there are no shops to lift from and everyone is already fed anyway?

capitalism kills innovation, and more importantly,

capitalism kills human beings.

#anarchy #communism #anarchocommunism #anticiv

[radicalgraff]

"Destroy Industrial Society"

Seen on a USPS van in NYC

#graffiti #graff #anticiv

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

"Destroy what destroys you"

#anarchy #anticiv #anti civilization #anti development

[nihilistgf]

is your child a nihilist extremist? 🤔

#anarchism #anticapitalism #queer anarchism #anticiv #leftist memes #anarchist memes #anarcho nihilism #anticapitalist #egoism #nihilism

[deep-green-existentialist]

I'm not saying your medicine is bad or shouldn't exist or that you should die. I am saying that nothing is good enough to justify slavery to me. You might have a different line. Lots of people the line is "slavery is fine unless I see it" and you might be one of them.

#Anticiv

[desianarchist]

Solar energy requires the erection of massive solar industry complexes, which lay bare the land by clearing out human populations and the migration routes of animals and people for giant solar fields, substations, and access ways. All of these require unusually high-carbon concrete. Wind and solar energy as well as the production of bio-fuels all require 100-1000 times the land area as the production of fossil fuels. Fuck the Chinese subsistence farmers who have carcinogenic industrial waste dumped on their lands everyday from those solar panel factories. They’re just not thinking ecologically enough. And forget the Ghanaians who complain when worn-out solar panels are piled into mountains in their backyards with the rest of the West’s obsolete tech. They are just impeding ecological progress. Whether oil wells, coal power plants, or megalithic “green” projects – all are rooted in an unprecedented destruction of habitats for human and other beings. Therefore it cannot be the goal to replace one destructive technology with another. The goal should be a massive and radical reduction in energy consumption. Anarchists who only struggle to free industry from capitalism must finally face the brutal reality. Down with industry, down with work. To use the words of the Indigenous Anarchist ziq: Seize the Means of Destruction! And fucking burn it to the ground… What comes next depends on what we do. The necessity of getting active has never been so great as today

#anti-colonialism #anarchism #nihilism #anti-colonial #anti consumerism #anticiv #egoist #egoism

[kazimirkharza]

People who think that replacing a wild ecosystem (left pic) with a solar plant (right pic) is "good for the environment" are seriously delusional. Solar panels require a global supply chain, (fossil fuel-based) mining and refining of rare-earth minerals, denuding of areas, and regular washing, all of which are extremely ecologically destructive. They also have a relatively short life and become problematic toxic waste afterwards. Humans have existed sustainably for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the advent of civilization and thrived - believe it or not - without any of these 'green' energy technologies. If we wish to survive and thrive again we must return to those ways.

#earth first! #earth liberation #earth love #green anarchy #anticiv #anarcho primitivism #anti civ #anarchy #anprim #anprimgang #luddism #deep ecology #luddite #ecocentrism #biocentrism #bright green lies #scam #solarpunk #solar #solar energy #solar power #green politics #eco anarchism #ecology #protect environment #wildlife #anti tech #ecocide #clean energy

[noneedtofearorhope]

civ: *creates The Problem* civ, much later: we have discovered that The Problem is problematic and dangerous civ apologists: see, if it wasn't for civ, we wouldn't know how dangerous The Problem is anticiv: ok, so how bout we stop The Problem? civ: ... no. anticiv: ok im going to do what little i can to stop whatever part of The Problem i can civ apologists: wow, so you want us all to die of The Problem?

#bringing back the chat post #and by bringing back i mean im going to use it this once and probably forget about it again like everyone else #anticiv #anarchism

[forbidden-sorcery]

Like the flames that devour a building or a bulldozer, our lust to destroy this Leviathan is uncontrollable and unpredictable. Because of the rejection of ideology and a conscious refusal of dialectics, manifestos and programs our resistance can not be mapped, anticipated, or prepared for. Though analysis is vital to the dismantling of this technological society, action must also play its crucial role. And it is in the shadow of this civilization that there is a creeping menace. This menace threatens the foundation of our civilization because it lacks the rationalism that is vital for the survival of industrialism. The rejection of productionism, to favor the desire of life and adventure over work.

Chris Kortright - Lust for A Wild Life: emotions from an individual of the doomed generation

#Chris Kortright #anticiv #green anarchy

[post-leffert]

PIU #3 call for submissions!

Plastic in Utero: a journal of anti-civ anarchy reborn from the compost of wasteland modernity (PIU) is calling for submissions for the third issue!. This zine-journal is open to all who want to contribute to the discussion of the current shit-hole we exist in, which some call civilization, capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy. Issue 3's topics will be religion, spirituality, symbolism, and related subjects (such as irreligion, nihilism, god(s), etc). However, contributors are encouraged to explore beyond these themes. The intention is not for the topic to impose limitations on the conversations, but rather to serve as an icebreaker that can connect the various texts within the journal. Feel free to share your perspectives and contribute to the ongoing discourse from previous issues, as well, particularly in the letter section.

PIU accepts the following: Essays, reviews, and interviews (2,500 word limit) Fiction pieces (2,500 word limit) Creative nonfiction (2,500 word limit) Art (keep to one page!) Poetry (keep to two pages, please be clear on formatting requests) Letters (350 word limit)

Deadline is April 1st, 2024. Contact Artxmis at tmwg1995[@]protonmail.com or: Po Box 72 Seymour, IL 61875

If submissions are mailed, format at 9 or 10 pt font, TNR, landscape, two column.

Plastic in Utero: a journal of anti-civ anarchy reborn from the compost of wasteland modernity (PIU) is an extension of the Uncivilized Project, which encompasses the Uncivilized Podcast and Uncivilized Distro. Uncivilized Distro currently has: PIU #1, 34 pages. $3/copy, free to prisoners PIU #2, 42 pages. $3/copy, free to prisoners Anarchism in Review #1: "Leo Tolstoy (1828-1919)" by Luigi Galleani, including a biography by Artxmis Graham Thoreau. $2 if ordered alone, free if requested with copy of PIU.

#plastic in utero #zines #zine #anticiv #anti civ

[archaeocommunologist]

"cities shouldn't exist" like, look, whether that's true or not, when we're discussing social forms that have been with us since the fucking neolithic, we are more in the realm of anthropological speculation than actual politics. cities aren't going anywhere. but feel free to continue tilting at windmills.

#anarchist shaming #anticiv

[radicalgraff]

"Abolishing "civilization" is a heroic act of love for the planet"

Altered billboard in Pittsburgh

#graffiti #graff #anticiv #anticivilization #anprim #subvertising #adbusting

[loboto-mae]

The Wolf

In 1970, an ecologist named David Mech published a book called “The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species.” A book which catalogued all the information researchers had at the time on the worlds of wolves. A book that Mech himself would later spend the rest of his career trying to end the publication on. You see, Mech had mistakenly used research on wolves that were held in captivity, and found later that much of the assertions made in it did not hold up to scrutiny when observing wolves in the wild.

In the west we’ve heard, often to death, of the “Alpha Wolf.” We compare people to wolves quite a bit. Especially in the recent trend of armchair youtube “sociologists” and american conservative grifters attempting to explain human behavior in terms of so-called “Alphas” and “Betas,” a great many people still believe that humans, by nature, are pack animals with rigid heirarchies. Like the wolves in Mech’s research: The strongest, most fit male eats first while the weaker of the pack get what’s left over. The Alpha leads the pack, makes key decisions for them, and always has first pick of the mate. Mech’s research contained much of the information used to argue this point and it was inaccurate. Mech researched only wolves in captivity, however, when he took to observing wolves in the wild, he quickly realized how this view of captive animals was simply not how free creatures organize. A pack of wolves in the wild is a family; usually, two parent wolves with a litter of puppies. There’s no “Alpha” male, there’s a father. And the weakest pups certainly do not eat last, quite the contrary. This dynamic is more indicative of a community than a heirarchy.

In research such as this, we can infer that animals in captivity adopt new forms of social organization in order to cope with their incredibly narrowed freedom. Often this organization is inherited from the order they were bred from, forcing them to maintain it generation after generation.

Despite this false representation, I actually do believe people are like the wolves in Mech’s book. I believe that we are in captivity. One so coercive that it encourages us to believe in social heirarchies. We organize our worlds around it. We have our bosses, our landowners, our teachers, our leaders. We see each other as rungs of a social ladder to step on in order to make it to the next level. We either live believing we are or can be the “alpha wolf,” or we struggle accepting that we will only eat when it is our turn. And for what? Why allow our choices and passions be squandered by believing we must adhere to rules upheld by those who are superior in title only?

In my neighbors, my friends, my families, I see animals in a cage. I see a polar bear that shuffles back and forth all day in a bored frustration like an animatron. I see a whale with a melancholic song for a mate, though it has no room in its tank for itself let alone another. I see a panda that refuses to mate, lest it doom its child to a life too much like it’s own. I see a wolf that would want nothing more than to sprint as far as its breath can carry it to the far reaches of the forest it calls its home. Wishing only to be stopped, not by the glass of an enclosure, but by the limitations of its own, wild imagination.

We are not ranks in a social order. We are beings whose freedom has been withheld. We crave free community, free association.

"To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism [greed and selfishness], is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough," says Andrew Collier.

We are not free, we are captives. And attempting to learn the potential of an enclosure will get us nowhere closer to freedom. We can appreciate those who were able to conquer or cast aside that cage, like Emerson or Thoreau. And we can find a glimmer of hope beam into our enclosures from the minds that saw hope beyond the cage, like Goldman or Tolstoy. But until we can learn to band together as the wolves we are and break loose of our captivity, we can never truly be free.

mae

#stream of thoughts #thoughts #journal #journaling #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #sociology #anti capitalism #freedom #coercivecontrol #anticiv #coercion #control #free association #nature #wolves #ecology #captivity #this swam around my head for weeks and needed to be put somewhere

[nihilistgf]

smash red fascism 🏴

#anarchism #anticapitalism #leftist memes #queer anarchism #anticiv #anarchist memes #anarcho nihilism #anticapitalist #egoism #nihilism #tankies

[deep-green-existentialist]

We were both fully sobbing about it yesterday that the world is too fucking big. We built it wrong. I'm allowed to be angry that I'm going to die, and until then I'm going to either be a part of or in open war against the world killing machine. I wanted to live free but I was born inside Leviathan. Why am I at work? Too cowardly to leave civilization I guess. Don't know where to go if I tried to leave. Where do you walk away to?

#anticiv

[fairfellowfriend]

I guess I don’t get it, the whole need to defend animals in captivity. A part of being a student of ecological science is the acceptance of death and the inevitability of it.

Animals die every day, and this is a good thing. It is good for the soil they rot into, for the beings that graze from their corpses, for the beings that sprout from the soil, for the beings who have one less competitor. Not only do we know all of this to be fundamentally true, but our planet has functioned this way (or similarly) since the dawn of complex life.

Yet, a large portion of pro-government (even though they often claim the opposite), pro-control, pro-animal agriculture types will fight tooth and nail in defense of animal captivity.

Listen, I love my cat. She’s domesticated, so it’s indeed different than animals kept in zoos, but she still lives in captivity. While yes, she is safer here, and has already outlived the life expectancy of an outdoor cat, trying to argue that without the enrichment I provide her that her life is better indoors is so nonsensical.

No. If it were not for my education, care, and level of dedication to her mental wellbeing, my cat would live a much more enjoyable, albeit dangerous, life. As have most non-domesticated animals every day for hundreds of millions of years.

If you think that human exceptionalism is an undeniable fact of life, and that you are a benevolent force saving animals from lives of wild freedom in exchange for a longer lifespan, you are at best a well meaning, delusional ignorant, and at worst a danger to the ecological balance that our planet is quickly losing control of. Yes, you are part of the problem. No, I don’t feel bad for saying so.

Animals living longer in captivity is not an excuse for captivity. While yes, there are organizations that keep animals in captivity AND make sure they are mentally stimulated in the same ways they’d be in the wild (though I’d argue this still doesn’t justify captivity), most do not. When you defend zoos with such a tired argument as, “they live longer,” I just want to remind you that we have undeniable proof that captivity is not healthy for animals. Multiple research journals, peer reviewed and valued by scientists, have come to the same conclusion: captivity is not good for animals.

#ecology #veganism #anticiv #anprim #green anarchy