In case you missed it, between various Twitter tirades and fashion shows, Kanye West actually released an album. The Life of Pablo was made available exclusively through Jay-Z's TIDAL, leading to a wave of complaints from people who never received their digital copy of the album because of the streaming service's inadequate capability to deliver people music.
From their collective force Humanity gains much in material prosperity. But it is only the material result that it gains, and the man who is poor is in himself absolutely of no importance. He is merely the infinitesimal atom of a force that, so far from regarding him, crushes him: indeed, prefers him crushed, as in that case he is far more obedient.
Oscar Wilde – The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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5. Primitivists are genocidal maniacs whose planned “utopia” requires them to orchestrate the mass murder of 99% of the human population! I’ve saved the best for last. This is the single most common, and the single most powerful attack launched against primitivists by the progressivist camp.
It is undeniably true that the world’s po...
5 Common Objections to Primitivism | The Anarchist Library
It is undeniably true that the world’s po...
5 Common Objections to Primitivism | The Anarchist Library
To the primitivist, it is, in fact, the progressivist who is misanthropic. It is the progressivist who claims that the natural state of humanity is to labor for the benefit of others and to be subject to despots — at best, kind-hearted and duly-elected despots, but despots all the same. It is the progressivist who thinks that humanity is not sufficient in itself, but must be ennobled by Science and Reason, r...
5 Common Objections to Primitivism | The Anarchist Library
The charge on medicine is common, but utterly anthropocentric. In the anthropology of medicine, one refers to “ethnomedicine” — whatever a given culture considers to be “medicine.” Given the overlap of food-as-medicine, this can be as arbitrary as how a culture divides up the color spectrum. Western biomedicine is our ethnomedicine. Every culture believes that their ethnomedicine is the only valuable one, and all others are naught but silly superstition. This is simply ethnocentrism. At the root of the claim that primitivism pre...
5 Common Objections to Primitivism | The Anarchist Library
