Fill the blank space yourself. GREENGREEN ANARCHYANARCHY AnAn Anti-CivilizationAnti-Civilization JournalJournal ofof TheoryTheory andand ActionAction www.greenanarchy.org SPRING/SUMMERSPRING/SUMMER 20072007 ISSUEISSUE #24#24 GREEN ANARCHY PO BOX 11331 Eugene, OR 97440 [email protected] $4 USA, $5 CANADA, $6 EUROPE, $7 WORLD FREE TO PRISONERS ContentsContentsContents:::: Issue #24 Spring/Summer 2007 Articles Riding the Winds of Change, by Tierra Lohor, pg 2 Direct Action Breaking Point?, by John Zerzan, pg 6 Anarchist Resistance, pg 24 Why I Hate the City, by Sal Insieme, pg 10 Ecological Defense and Animal Liberation, pg 39 Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, pg 13 Anti-Capitalist and Anti-State Battles, pg 46 Smashing the Petri Dish: Abbreviated Inquiry Into Abandoning the Concept of Culture, by A. Morefus, pg 16 Indigenous Struggles, pg 54 Perspectives on the Situationist International, pg 18 Prisoner Escapes and Uprisings, pg 66 Lines of Flight: To Liberate the Earth of Celestial Illusions Symptoms of the System’s Meltdown, pg 72 and Their Tyranny, by Raoul Vaneigem, pg 21 The Afflictions of the Critics of the Ego, Sections by Arrigoni Brand, pg 27 Welcome to Green Anarchy, pg 4 On the Neutrality of Technology, The Garden of Peculiarities: Fragment 24, pg 57 by Jesse Cross-Nickerson, pg 28 The Nihilist’s Dictionary: #9–Society, pg 71 Technology Is Not a Tool, by “Throw” pg 31 Reviews, pg 76 Infantile Paralysis, by Sky Hiatt, pg 32 News from the Balcony with Waldorf and Statler, pg 85 What We’ve Lost: Impoverished Biodiversity of North America, by mike, pg 36 State Repression News, pg 90 China’s War on Nature: Overcoming Anthropocentrism Letters, pg 94 and Industrialization, by The Uncarved Block, pg 42 Subscriber and Distributor Info, pg 98 Overcoming the spectacle of the usual counter-summit Green Anarchy Distro, pg 98 banality, by Jacob Duval, pg 49 Announcements, pg 100 Diary of a Female Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer in a European Forest during the Roman Conquest of Gaul, pg 52 You put the parts together, On My Experience with Time in Tanzania, East Africa, and BANG! by Steve Jordan, pg 58 A language beyond symbolic thought, by Thomas Toivonen, pg 60 Another Thanksgiving Story, by Red Wolf Returns, pg 62 The Society of Masterless Men, by Sea Weed, pg. 64 Seeds On the Breeze, by Scavenger, pg 68 Anarchist People of Odor (A.P.O.O.), pg 75 Reclus: An Egoist Green Anarchist Exploration, by Fire, pg. 86 Report Back: Feral Visions Against Civilization 2006, by Laurel Luddite, pg 88 Page 1 SPRING/SUMMER ‘07 ISSUE EveryEvery momentmoment in the forest, the desert, the meadow, and dune is deeply different from the last and from the next. But the subtle shifts and transitions each life makes remain largely imperceptible. Especially to those who Riding the need significant change to arouse their senses. Some speculate that humans were once more sensitive to subtle shifts in their environment that might indicate a need to do something Winds of differently. This is not difficult to imagine. by Other animals – even plants – appear to have a more immediate awareness of impending Tierra danger and imminently desirable conditions, thus a less forced reaction, than I tend to. It’s Lohor Change amazing to watch a plant curve its leaves upward when sensing a coming rain when dry, bending downward when they’ve had enough. it takes an accumulation of moments to notice thought were necessary - the illusory stability Turning east towards the sun at dawn, to the it. Sometimes it takes many years worth of a of a job, a “real” house with electricity, a west near the end of day. I have often marveled look-back to see what is different and why. computer, phone, and the like – I regained at a bird of prey languishing on the shifting I have gone through so many changes in my a modicum of health lost through years of over- winds, the thermals that hold them aloft. five decades, that at times, I barely recognize work, over-stress, over-everything. Everything Never beating a wing yet gliding endlessly who I’ve been and where I’ve come from but what I really wanted – to run free as the to nowhere. through all my wanderings. The accumulation wind. I began to need less and less of what Change may be gradual or sudden, fluid or of some changes are visible, even expected – I didn’t want to have, more and more of what I jarring, organic or directed, micro and macro, my gnarling hands, the wrinkles around my did. But a couple years ago, I went back, back chaotic or ordered, cyclical or linear – though eyes, the stiffness in my walk. But the most into the thick of things, certain that I was these words imply that life exists in binary intense are invisible to others, though their healthy enough to join the fight against all the states. This is the way modern humans seem impact on me is stunning. I have become shit sickening me and those around me. Before to see things and I think we miss a lot of in- “hypersensitive” to the high-tech world. Intol- it could fully invade my insular world. I missed betweens. No matter which way change comes, erant of petrochemicals, colognes, florescent something back then, it seems. Now, I am lighting, mechanical hums, screaming engines. suffering again and am unclear what changes I get horrendous headaches, nausea, agita- I need to make to get back to myself. tion, even an inexplicable rage when I spend Obviously, filtering some of life’s chaos is much time around them. This is, of course, critical to maintaining an equilibrium, other- considered an abnormality, an “autoimmune” wise we would have to be too much on guard. condition. But, I think I am more like the This must be one of the key aspects of adapta- canary in the mine shaft, only a nomadic tion/evolution and I don’t think our adjustments early warning. have ceased. Does this mean ‘hard-wired’ Some changes have been most welcome. I changes? I don’t know the answer to that and can hear a long way off. Feel the breeze as neither does anyone else. What I do know is striations of warm and cool, of soft and tingling that I find myself easily overstimulated when threads instead of a single force. I have surrounded by the constant noisome, jarring amazingly vivid memory-visions too now, changes that define civilized life. It is difficult almost as if seeing “my whole life pass before enough to tune into the signals of the few my very eyes”. I remember that the changes dangers in the natural world – poison plant or that brought me the most joy, that increased snake, the rare bear or mountain lion, the my well-being, were those I made when I buried water flow – how does one differentiate listened to my gut and my heart at least as between useful, desirable, dangerous, neutral, much as my mind and others’ advice. Ten years etc. in the city when so much spins around at ago, my sight underwent an amazing change the same time? In my rare visits there, I have following a late night call from a doctor, telling to consciously – at first anyway – turn down me I had lymphoma. The next day when I certain senses while amping up others to block stepped outside for an early morning, contem- out what I can, but still feel safe. This is why I plative walk, trees had ceased to be blobs of avoid the city like the plague. So, I understand brown and green in the distance. Then and now the ubiquity of the car stereo, the boombox, I see the fluttering of each individual leaf walkman, and now the ipod. The downers and dancing in the breeze. uppers and mood controllers and clubs and That doctor was wrong, a pattern that bars and sports and gadgets..., all the endless has repeated itself numerous times as entertainment possibilities that fill the empty specialists puzzle over what is spaces where work and obligation can be for- going on inside me. Inside our gotten for a time. It makes a kind of civilized biosphere. But I got the warning, sense for people to embrace newer and more and in listening, moved towards potent distractions. But just as certain is the the simpler life away from the city difficulty that accompanies any attempt to give I had always dreamed of. With- up those coping mechanisms. Even when we out the things I had always know deep inside, these changes are necessary GREENGREEN ANARCHYANARCHY #24#24 Page 2 to be stronger, healthier, more free. Radical vironment, or move on for a time. Most humans greater than ever before. Especially in the change is hard, perhaps frightening. Most folks choose to squeeze every last drop out – and then change-time called winter. I need to rip huge settle for merely a little different. For a newness some - rather than make changes that might amounts of wood from the forest to stay warm that is mostly just more of the same. Yet we bring back a robust and healthy equilibrium. and dry against the rains and snows that anarchists are audacious enough to ask – if not Interesting how this pattern is reflected in our threaten to dissolve me. I need more help from demand – enormous, unprecedented change friendships. With our loves. others who have enough to do caring for them- from the entire world! Do we really wonder What if that restlessness, that boredom, that selves.