So before saying anything else, I just wanted to point out this bold part as a demonstration of how intellectually honest you're actually interested in being and how you're totally not trolling or anything. Replace 'primmos' with commies and yurts with North Korea or Cuba and oh boy what a familiar post this becomes. Anyhow, just like you can't move to North Korea to experience the joys of communism, you can't pitch a tent in the forest and experience post-industrial bliss, or whatever passes for bliss in a post-industrial hellscape. It's the part of the day where you pass out from blood loss after being mauled by a radscorpian I think.
Primitivists are of the mind that industrial society is unsustainable, unsustainable to the extent that it will collapse and consume itself, along with a sizable chunk of the biosphere. As a result of this collapse human society will have to reconstitute itself based on the material available, and since industrial society will supposedly have consumed all the resources on the earth's surface and since machinery to get at the good stuff still remaining in the ground won't be around anymore, they reckon that human society will have to get by with a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. They aren't planning on personally destroying each and every artificially housed hormone that might be used by transgender people or each clinic that might be used by women for immediate abortions, instead they say that the industrial society which made these things available will itself disappear due to it's own designs without the help of anyone. That in of itself doesn't sound all that reactionary, but for sure some of the theories and I guess tendencies that result from this starting point are. Imagine if you will a diagram of stupid leftist tendencies ranging from left liberalism and social democracy to whatever ideology it is that drives people to form cults and keep domestic slaves for decades. Now take those categories and change their stupid names to other stupid names that revolve around 'green' vocabularies. You get all kinds of people, people that develop a fetish for the collapse itself (left wing version; think of people who intellectually masturbate over the opportunity to kill a CEO or something, rather than focusing on something really cool like not having to go to work or pay for anything ever again, go figure.) because they have any number of issues in the here and now and society collapsing seems like a good alternative in that mindset I suppose. But they can't make the collapse happen any faster than it's already doing it, just like you can't make communism happen any faster by handing out leaflets or newspapers. They just continue to go to work and posting blogs that no one reads. Then there are some other nerds that think industrial society could maybe be brought down in a 'controlled' fashion like wiring a partially-collapsed building with dynamite. They like to role play as eco-terrorists but actually are just a fan-cult around one of the more famous primitivist writers.
Then you have the nihilists. These people are young and angry and as a result of not thinking too critically and of not having a whole lot of perspective in life yet, think it's a good idea to take revenge on the people "responsible" for the whole ecological collapse that's coming. Now whether those people are actually responsible for anything to a greater or lesser extent than the nihilists themselves doesn't really enter the equation because like I said there's a lack of critical thinking going on. This phenomena also reproduces itself on the left..and the right and pretty much any movement that can attract young and angry people who don't think critically.
Again though, this all sounds super familiar, I dunno. But yeah that's primitivism, its as useless are you are (or anyone else on the left, not intended to be an insult), which is maybe why leftists are so keen to beat up on it, although you have to admit it sort of sets itself up for it. Luckily there are no primitivists on revleft aside from those in your head. If there were some, you wouldn't have had to wait over a week for me to get stoned and respond like this.
I know revleft gets on loops about certain topics, but I'm ready to transition away from primitivism, I feel as though this is the 6th or 7th thread about it in the last few weeks.
belong to White Protestant Anglo-Saxons and should remain that way. As for supporters of the Tokyo Subway attack the only people i have ever heard support that are people who are blatantly racist against the Japanese.
