To The Desertmaker and Other Writings for Malcontents

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You have demolished their sublime mountains to construct your shopping malls and marinas. You have drained their great lakes to plant your carefully manicured golf courses. Felled their majestic forests to graze your billion cows. Desecrated their vast oceans with your rotten, putrid waste. You're driven to control Terra, to change the course of their rivers, to reshape their shorelines and modify their lifeforms to suit your rapacious appetite. You can't fathom a world where you don't own the earth below your feet, posses everything Terra created as your own. You are imperious to assume Terra will be so affected by a fleetingly short-lived and short-sighted creature as yourself. If it takes a million of your lifetimes, Terra will wash away the volumes of excrement you have soiled their surface with. You spent your wretched life desperately cutting your name into Terra's flesh, but Terra's wounds will callus over, creature. Long after the arrogant grin you wear on your lips has turned to dust with the rest of your foul corpse, Terra will regenerate. All the beautiful, disparate beasts you have eradicated during your brief gluttonous tantrum will be reborn. The trees will rise again in magnificent groves as far as the eye can see. Everything you took will be reclaimed. (From the title essay) To the Desertmaker What is Anarchy? What Anarchy Means to Me Developing Anarchist Praxis Indigenous Anarchy: The Need for a Rejection of the Colonizer's Civilization Freedom Through Rejection Control and Domestication Embracing our "Inhospitable Wilderness" Understanding Neo-Colonialism Looking a Gift-Horse in the Mouth: The Technological Divide Fuck Your Red Revolution: Against Ecocide, Towards Anarchy Let Go of Your Tedious Slogans Harm Reduction is Valuable Personal Action Doesn't Happen in a Vacuum: Working Towards a Lasting Cultural Shift Fuck Your Luxury Space Communism Ethics-Based Choices Aren't "Liberal" Just Because Pompous Reds Say So Capitalism and Communism Are Cut from the Same Exploitative Industrial Cloth Embracing Pointed Distractions and Recognizing Ideological Greenwashing Understanding the Coercion Behind the "Collective Good" Reject Collectivism, Embrace Anarchy Anarchy Vs. Archy: No Justified Authority-Or-Why Chomsky Is Wrong Archy: The Opposite of Anarchy On "Justified Authority" Expertise vs. Force vs. Authority The Chomsky Connection The Expertise of the Cobbler Diluting the Goals of Anarchy Authority is a Moral Hierarchy On Anarchist Parenting Watered-Down Anarchy Anarchy vs. Communalism: Bookchin, Lifestylism, Ideology, and Greenwashing Blasted Lifestylists! Communalism: Murray's Prescribed Cure for Lifestylism A Green Anarchist Perspective Do Anarchists Vote in State Elections? Do Anarchists Support Free Speech? Do Anarchists Support Democracy? Understanding Democracy Democratic Genocide Democracy or Anarchy? The Authority of Democracy Consensus Democracy? Anarchy Doesn't Need Democracy Tankies and the Left-Unity Scam What is a "Tankie"? Lenin: Red Terror Driven by the Taste of Boot Reject Left-Unity Anarcho-Capitalism? Burn the Bread Book: Industrial Communism Will Not Liberate You The True Cost of Bread The People's Authority: How Anarcho-Communism is Authority Forming All Industrial Goods Free for All People: A Recipe for Disaster Is Communism Always Authority-Forming? Seize the Means of Destruction! (And Fucking Burn It to the Ground . . . )