Atassa: Read- ings in Eco- extrem- ism #2 on the cover: “The importance of boundaries and the circle and cross motif cropped up frequently in the decoration of ceremonial gorgets worn by Mississippian chiefs or priests in sacred ceremonies. Figure 3 depicts such a gorget, and it shows that the space beyond the orderly sacred circle was filled with horrible anomalous creatures who embodied the chaos and power of the outside world. By mixing the Underworld (a serpent’s body), the Upper World (an eagle’s wings), and This World (a panther’s head), the creatures violated the separation of the planes that was necessary if bal- ance was to be maintained. Moreover, the representation of male and female genitalia in the circular and elliptical designs that covered their serpentine bodies suggests the equally terrible consequences of mixing genders. Such monsters offered people a ter- rifying reminder of the need to follow prescribed social conventions to save their world and themselves. From the sleepy rivers and fetid swamps that represented the pathways between This World and the Underworld to the dark arboreal embrace of the forests beyond the pale of human habitation, the outside world that surrounded the Choctaws was home to many terrible creatures. Those who ventured beyond the circle’s safe confines could expect to encounter monsters like the Nalusa Falaya, the Long Evil Being. Its beady eyes, set in a small shriveled head, peered over a protruding nose and searched the night for hunters. When it spotted prey the monster crept up behind the hunting parties and called to them. Those who turned to look fainted from fright at the sight of its face, and Nalusa Falaya pricked them with a magic thorn to transform them into evil beings. Less dangerous was the Kashehotopalo, which juxtaposed gender and species in a truly hideous form. Perched on the legs of a deer, a man’s trunk extended from the waist and was topped by an evil-looking head. From its wrinkled mouth came a woman’s cry that terrified all who heard it. Other creatures infested the thickets and waters around the Choctaw circle, creatures that with one glance could force travelers to lose their way or draw them into pools and streams for a bewitched life in the Underworld.” -James Taylor Carson, Searching for the Bright Path: Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal, pages 23-24 Atassa #2 2016 licensed under creative commons paintings: sh Introduction: Caveat Lector 1 Hostis Humani Generis: eco-extremism, demonology, and the birth of criminality Adrien Rouquette 47 Some Reflections on Modern Human Action from the Eco-Extremist Perspective Ozomatli & Huehuecoyotl 55 A New Revolutionary Phraseology Jeremías Torres 63 Breaking Down the Bars of the Anarchist Cages: brief reflections of an ex-anarchist Ex-anarchist 69 Poem Krren oscuro 73 The PsychoPathogen: the serial killer as an antibody response to modernity Ezra Buckley 89 Tangled Hostility kohelet 93 The Mara Salvatrucha: the most dangerous gang in the world Extinción 1 99 A Statement from Innocence: a spirit from the South 103 Lions in the Brush: on the anatomy and guidelines of cell- structured resistance el borracho (nömad warfuk) 111 Paraguayan People’s Army: what can we learn from them? Ajajema 1 117 Letter to an optimist Jeremías Torres 121 Weak Words Concerning Human Reasoning Huazihul 125 At-Tux D.G. 133 “No Such Thing as Life without Bloodshed...”or The Force of Tragedy in Anti-Humanist Politics Magpie 137 Reflections on Freedom Zúpay 145 On Terrorism and Indiscriminate Violence Fiera 153 For a Metropolis against Itself Eleuterio Pinto Paredes 157 Out of the Self: a sermon for the dead Abraxas 167 Eco-extremism and the Woman Meztli 177 Eco-extremist Women Speak Yoloxochitl & More 177 A Note on Reproduction from the Eco-extremist Perspective CW 181 Eco-extremist Spiritual Exercises various Caveat Lector What you hold in your hands is a dangerous book. Although those who compiled and worked on it are perfectly harmless, these pages have the power to make you a killer, a rapist, a psychopath, a fascist, or a hunter of anarchists. At least that is what its detractors think. Our intention has been to merely inform concerning (and yes, sup- port in our own independent way) the growth of eco-extremism as a tendency, or at the very least its premises of eco-pessimism and distrust of all human endeavors. We go to dark places, but we are not necessarily dark people. We feel only that the best way to keep our sanity is to explore those areas of human existence that this society has sought to expel from hyper-civilized consciousness. So while we realize that you may have picked up this journal with the expectation that the editors will address the controversy that has taken place in the past year around Atassa, we will not be addressing any criticisms here. A response may be coming elsewhere, and we have a sense that it will not be too hard to find. But we reiterate here: pretending that bad things don’t exist won’t make them go away. Pretending that a brighter future is pos- sible won’t make it come to pass. Shaming only works in a society where people still have shame. The best refutation of the aspirations of societal dreamers is the insignificance of the dreamers themselves. Often their “opposition” and “social war” don’t pass the severity of a teenage prank or barroom brawl, weighed down as they are by the morality of the average pewsitter at the local Christian church. They are easily forgettable and not worth discussing. At some point, the most capable of them will have to ask themselves a question: Do I want to be loved or feared? Do I want to be moral and right or calculating and dangerous? Am I going to keep trying to save a society that doesn’t want to be saved, or will I impose my own will and vision of what I want, come what may? Yes, this society is bad, it is destroying itself, thousands of species, and the last wild places left on Earth. Yes, it is bad, but the question (or challenge) is: Can you be worse? Can you turn that destruction around to oppose it in a meaningful way? If you can’t be society’s savior, can you instead be its worthy adversary? Do you dare at least try? When are you going to stop playing the role of innocent victim and try something else? These are not easy questions to answer, of course. But if you decide you would rather be dangerous, whatever that means in your context or situation (keeping in mind the laws of your country and punitive consequences), these pages might serve some purpose. If not, you would best not read any further. And as one must state at the outset of many such projects: Kids, don’t try this at home. Seamos peligrosos (Let us be dangerous). the editors Hostis humani generis: Eco-extremism, demonology, and the birth of criminality Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44 Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter. Maya Deren, The Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti Here begins the Good News of the Unknowable, the Hidden, the Inhuman, the Wild outside all comprehension: The Chaos stirred for the eternity of eternities, churning and churning in the un- fathomable darkness. It was before all Fire, all Air, all Water, and all Earth. It stayed nowhere, obeyed no one, and was before the Master and Servant. There is no Thought in it, no Truth, no Love, and no Beauty. It grinds words into ash, and knows no desire. It is blind and sees all. Before it whispers the thing, the thing is already passing away. It is undifferentiated, but divided into a million parts. It is the unstruck sound that fills all things with its echo. Within the mire of Chaos emerged He-Who-Is. He crawled out and formed Time with his limbs. Like a nocturnal fantasy, he formed Order and the Good. He sculpted Beauty to bring things under his command. In a struggle with the Chaos, the Cosmos was formed, firmly established but also passing away. And they saw that it was good. Day and night passed. Then He-Who-Is said to Chaos: I will make Man to look upon what we have made and subjugate it in my name. The Chaos re- fused this, and a Great War began. The Morning Star shining in the darkness cried unto the Cosmos: “Who is like unto Chaos? And who dares to set his throne above the Primordial Darkness?” He- Who-Is made Man in his image and likeness, to battle the Morn- ing Star. He told Man that the Morning Star had fallen and had become the Murderer. He-Who-Is deceived Man to fight against Chaos, telling him that he was greater than it. Thus, Man carved 1 up the land and made a Garden. He subjugated the other creatures to his own use. With time, he could move mountains, change the course of rivers, level forests, and even change his own nature. But He-Who-Is is not greater than Chaos and the Murderer, his slaves cannot comprehend the Darkness that extinguishes the light.