Corrosive Consciousness

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This piece is an attempt at collecting and refining ideas I have thought about and discussed, perhaps excessively, for the past few years on the podcasts Free Radical Radio and The Brilliant, presented here in a redigested and regurgitated form that I envision, tentatively, as my final statements on the subject matter. Critique, in my view, is always implicitly complimentary: its mere existence validates the importance of its target, regardless of how harsh it might be... Anarcho-Primitivism drew me to anarchism in a way that the Humanist Left-wing or Right-wing versions never could have, and so I've lavished it with a good deal of this praise. Barring a sea change in the discourse with the Anarcho-Primitivists, what follows is a sincerely fond farewell. Corrosive Consciousness Introduction Part I: That Damned Old Weltanschauung That Just Won't Die: The Evolution of Slave Ideology in the West To Make the World Other: Self-Alienation and the Origins of Our Crisis Which Side Are You On?: The Origins of Morality and Anthropocentrism in Dualistic Religion Unum, Bonum, Verum: Rationalism and Optimism in Ancient Greece The Truth Revealed: Monotheism and the Human "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself": The False Disillusionment of Secular Humanism The True Believers: Anarchism as a Continuance of the Western Mythos Part II: A Polemic Gaian Platonism, Green Manichaeism: Dualism and the Absolute in Anarcho-Primitivism Elusive Anathema: The Vagaries of "Domestication" Unum, Bonum, Verum Redux: "For Wildness" and "animals point to the right road" Deep Green Ignorance: Anarcho-Primitivism's Verisimilitude of Scientific Legitimacy Whither the Future Primitive?: Anarcho-Primitivism and Praxis Part III: An Anticipation of Critique Postscript: Cynical Virtues - A Preliminary Sketch of an Anarchist Form of Life in Leviathans 21st Century Setting Your Affair on Nothing Dionysian Pessimism Leaving behind The Human Project Defacing the Currency Reversionism, Re-inhabiting, and the Agricultural Counter-Revolution Notes The Ape's Paternoster by John Moore