Against civilization
by John Zerzan · first published 2005
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I would recommend John Zerzan's "Against Civilization". It is in the same ballpark https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=9780922915989&i=stripbooks&link...
on “Ask HN: Have you ever gone without a computer or phone for an extended period?” ↗You should check out the article "The Case Against Civilization: Did our hunter-gatherer ancestors have it better?" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-again... And the book it cites "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States".…
on “Raymond E. Feist on Building a World from Scratch” ↗It says "Against Civilization" is "spreading versions of his message", meaning Kaczynski. But "Against Civilization" was written by John Zerzan, and Zerzan was saying these things before "Industrial Society and Its Future" was published.…
on “The Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes” ↗