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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.”
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John Zerzan
Source : John Zerzan (1994). “Future primitive: and other essays”
#Heart Quotes
#Technology Quotes
#People Quotes
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“We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.”
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John Zerzan
Source : John Zerzan (2015). “Why Hope?: The Stand Against Civilization”, p.106, Feral House
#Animal Quotes
#Lost Quotes
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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?”
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John Zerzan
Source : John Zerzan (2012). “Future Primitive Revisited”, p.96, Feral House
#Dream Quotes
#Dancing Quotes
#Imagination Quotes
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“If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again”
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John Zerzan
Source : "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book edited by James L. Harmon, 2007.
#Long Quotes
#Balance Quotes
#Able Quotes
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“We don't need more stupid ideas.”
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John Zerzan
#Stupid Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Needs Quotes
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“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.”
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John Zerzan
Source : John Zerzan (2002). “Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilisation”
#Fall Quotes
#Bridges Quotes
#Knowing Quotes
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“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.'”
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John Zerzan
#Oneness Quotes
#Survival Quotes
#Literature Quotes
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“The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.”
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John Zerzan
Source : John Zerzan (2002). “Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilisation”
#Liberty Quotes
#Freedom To Choose Quotes
#Brands Quotes
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“We have the freedom to choose between brand A, brand B, and brand C. That´s about it for freedom.”
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John Zerzan
#Freedom To Choose Quotes
#Brands Quotes
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“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.”
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John Zerzan
#Everyday Quotes
#Glimpse Quotes
#Culture Quotes
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“Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.”
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John Zerzan
Source : "Elements of Refusal". Book by John Zerzan, 1988.
#Everyday Quotes
#Void Quotes
#Anarchy Quotes
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“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 .”
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John Zerzan
Source : "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book by James L. Harmon, 2007.
#Roots Quotes
#Long Quotes
#Balance Quotes
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