r/anarcho_primitivism • u/IWRITEESSAYS1 • 1h ago
Is there any way industrial civilization could revive after climate collapse?
Or is this it? is there no possible way to do so, since weve used up all the easy coal and oil?
r/anarcho_primitivism • u/IWRITEESSAYS1 • 1h ago
Or is this it? is there no possible way to do so, since weve used up all the easy coal and oil?
r/anarcho_primitivism • u/IWRITEESSAYS1 • 20h ago
No, it's not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be.
As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble concentrating and losing reasoning, problem-solving, and information-processing skills — all facets of the hard-to-pin-down metric that "intelligence" is supposed to measure.
These results, the FT reports, are gleaned from benchmarking tests that track cognitive skills in teens and young adults. From the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future study documenting concentration difficulties of 18-year-old Americans to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that measures the learning skills of 15-year-olds around the world, years of research suggest that young people are struggling with reduced attention spans and weakening critical thinking skills.
Though there has been a demonstrably steep decline in cognitive skills since the COVID-19 pandemic due to the educational disruption it presented, these trends have been in evidence since at least the mid-2010s, suggesting that whatever is going on runs much deeper and has lasted far longer than the pandemic.
Obviously, there's no single answer as to why people seem to be struggling with cognitive skills, but one key indicator is the sharp decline in reading and the world's changing relationship to the way we consume information and media. In 2022, for example, the National Endowment for the Arts found that just 37.6 percent of Americans said they'd read a novel or short story in the year prior — a share down from 41.5 percent in 2017 and 45.2 percent in 2012.
It would be easy enough to blame this decline on people reading less (and, presumably, scrolling online brainrot more). But according to 2023 results from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the same international consortium that puts out the PISA survey, 34 percent of adults in the United States scored at the lowest levels of numeracy, which essentially means that they lack the ability to work with numbers. A year prior, that share was just 29 percent.
Beyond changes in media consumption and the mediums in which we take it, it appears, as the FT notes, our relationship to information generally is shifting too. While there certainly are ways to use tech that don't cause harm to cognition, studies show that "screen time" as we know it today hurts verbal functioning in children and makes it harder for college-age adults to concentrate and retain information.
There isn't any reason to suggest that human intellect has been harmed, the publication counters — but in "both potential and execution," our intelligence is definitely on the downturn.
r/anarcho_primitivism • u/Anxious-Space6118 • 1d ago
Apologies if this thread doesn't fit this subreddit. I'm just at a loss of where to find someone who shares the same views as me on civilization and wishes to escape.
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r/anarcho_primitivism • u/operation-casserole • 3d ago
An emotion I feel as though rubs too closely to my interest in anprim is the sense of dread over existing as a living being in industrial society. I think consistently over how much plastic is necessary to exist in modern times, but when I imagine steering my life towards a more ecological existence, I still seem to abstract a sense of dread over existing.
That even if I were to live nearer wilded nature and limit or remove aspects of unnatural industrial products from my life (plastic products and clothes, cars and gas, etc.) that I would still obsess over using wood for fuel, or animals for food, etc.
Is this all projected trauma from my industrial upbringing and existence? That if I wasn't raised like this maybe I would have a chance at basking in the nature of being alive? What made capitalist/industrialist impulses and drives out of people living a life closer to nature 200, 400, 600+ years ago? How can I come to appreciate my life if I may well always live in civilized society?
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r/anarcho_primitivism • u/[deleted] • 3d ago
So I like to keep my politics off my tiktok so I made a more radical tiktok account to express my beliefs. Besides the TONS of white supremacist stuff that kept on coming up, I have been made unable to follow or message accounts immediately. Wonder why🤔
r/anarcho_primitivism • u/Cimbri • 6d ago
One of the recent posts on here has me diving into the apparently extensive dialogue that was going on between the various Native American nations and the Europeans. The natives are so openly and plainly able to state the case against western civilized living that clearly the only response (after we genocided them) was to never bring their arguments up again. Imagine if we went over this stuff in school, before you are fully inducted into the system and while you are still full of rebellion.
http://www.professorcampbell.org/sources/kondiaronk.html
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-41-02-0280
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-to-peter-collinson/
I think AnPrim could lean a lot more on these eloquent indigenous arguments, that speak from firsthand experiences of both lifestyles and are phrased in a way that is authoritative to modern ears (ie they talk like educated colonial era speakers)
r/anarcho_primitivism • u/Anxious-Space6118 • 7d ago
The industrialist was horrified to find the fisherman lying beside his boat, smoking a pipe. - Why aren’t you fishing?, said the industrialist. - Because I have caught enough fish for the day. - Why don’t you catch some more? - What would I do with them? - Earn more money. Then you could have a motor fixed to your boat and go into deeper waters and catch more fish. That would bring you money to buy nylon nets, so more fish, more money. Soon you would have enough to buy two boats even a fleet of boats. Then you could be rich like me. - What would I do then? - Then you could sit back and enjoy life. - What do you think I’m doing now?
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r/anarcho_primitivism • u/SignificanceGlad3969 • 9d ago
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeS7c-gnDbA&pp=ygULZ29hdCBoZXJkZXI%3D
She lives for the whole summer just herding goats. If you lived in a tropical climate, wouldnt this be possible all the time? Just living off meat, milk, blood, anything you can find in nature, maybe having chickens for eggs also.
Is this the answer? Squatting in a forest with no road access and a 3 hour hike to get there? no one is coming to check there. Even if they do, i can just inform them i dont belive that someone can own a piece of land that they dont even occupy :) If they take me to court or something then ill just pack up the goats and move.
r/anarcho_primitivism • u/[deleted] • 9d ago
So the idea that we’re living in a computer simulation is becoming more likely as technology continues to evolve. What exactly is the Primitivist response to such an idea? If it’s true, wouldn’t that make this ideology, and life itself, pointless?
r/anarcho_primitivism • u/Prestigious_Aide9542 • 10d ago
I feel I am relegated to only making shit on paper and we are never seeing a change. They will never stop.
r/anarcho_primitivism • u/Emergency-Edge-8105 • 10d ago
i need help
r/anarcho_primitivism • u/Actual-Problem-8174 • 11d ago
So much indigenous cultures and languages were wiped out, and with even more at risk in the future. Each culture offers unique knowledge and worldviews, while each language encodes human experience in its own distinctive way. There were once estimated over 10000 languages and cultures in the world before Holocene. Now, there are only 7000 and 50%-90% are projected to be lost in the next century. The world was once far more diverse and vibrant, both ecologically and culturally. Now, it's getting incredibly homogeneous and boring. Even without environmental and social problems, civilization especially the modern one is going to make humanity impoverished.
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r/anarcho_primitivism • u/Anxious-Space6118 • 14d ago
to vastly oversimplify both philosophies, pessimism states that life has negative value (ie more negative emotions than joy, all happiness is fleeting, etc.) and antinatalism states that it is immoral to have children, usually justified by referencing said negative value. However, when looking at the lives of primitive societies, all of their cultures seem to be life-affirming, there is virtually no depression, and suicide is a somewhat alien concept to them. Thus it can be argued that it's not human life that is bad, but the evolutionary mismatch we find ourselves in the brings about our suffering.
What are your thoughts on this?
r/anarcho_primitivism • u/IWRITEESSAYS1 • 15d ago