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John Zerzan (/ˈzɜːrzən/ ZUR-zən; born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time.

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We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

Inspirational, Life, Dance, Failure, Road, Destruction

If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history.

Roots, Long, Balance, State, Overtaking

Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth.

Military, Gay, Government, Marriage, Republicans

A great deal of anthropological
ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness between inner and outer worlds. At times we still feel a return to that unified state. T. S. Eliot’s designation of our return is ‘through the unknown remembered gate. '

Oneness, Survival, Return, Unified, Necessitates, Live

We have the freedom to choose between brand A, brand B, and brand C. That´s about it for freedom.

Freedom To Choose, Brands, Brand, Freedom, Choose

Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.

Culture, Deepens, Everyday, Glimpse, Isolating, Spirit

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

Real, Community, Connections, Live, Nature, Sense

I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.

Thinking, Ideas, Two, Pushing, Think

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

Together, Technological, Hold, Becomes, Society

We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

Animal, Lost, Right Road, Right, Point

I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.

Thinking, People, Lines, Connect, Hope

We don't need more stupid ideas.

Stupid, Ideas, Stupid Ideas

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.

Nature, Long, Balance, Lived

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

Bridge, Bridges, Experienced, Fall, Fullness Of Life

If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

Community, Connections, Experts, Operative, Mass

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

Authenticity, Pleasure, Grain, Exists, Against