The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society. - John Zerzan

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A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made a song to make people happy before. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.

John Zerzan

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

Authenticity, Pleasure, Grain, Exists, Against

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Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.

Approaches, Heart, People, Return, Technology, Undoing

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

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

Everyday Routine, Void, Anarchy, Securities, Surface

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

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

Together, Technological, Hold, Becomes, Society

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