Article: Stop Joking About Fleeing Earth

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Article: Stop Joking About Fleeing Earth

This excellent article sums up our thoughts on megalomaniac delusions of colonizing other planets (as if colonization didn’t do enough damage, devastated enough ecosystems and destroyed enough diversity in the

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Book: My Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)

Part of the Ismael trilogy Vol. 1 – Ishmael Vol. 2 – The Story of B Vol. 3 – My Ismael

Book: The Story of B (Daniel Quinn)

  Part of the Ismael trilogy Vol. 1 – Ishmael Vol. 2 – The Story of B Vol. 3 – My Ismael

Book: Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)

  Part of the Ismael trilogy Vol. 1 – Ishmael Vol. 2 – The Story of B Vol. 3 – My Ismael

Article: Jarawa Hunter-Gatherers Forced into Civilization

The Jarawa of the Andaman Islands are one of the few surviving tribes that live a sustainable life in harmony with their environment. The aggressive expansionist character of our society

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Article: The Tribe on the Front Line in the Battle to Save Indonesia’s Forests

The Orang Rimba – another tribe on the brink of extinction. Every other culture gets crushed under the wheels of our own cultural juggernaut. This has been going on for

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Article: Give Up Technology & Go Back to ‘Hunting & Gathering’

You know primitivism succeeds when even the Business Insider starts writing about it. http://www.businessinsider.in/Give-up-Technology-Go-back-to-Hunting-Gathering/articleshow/53222031.cms

Article: Were We Happier in the Stone Age?

Another interesting piece, even though the term “stone age” is misleading and biased. One remark: The author fails to see that epidemic disease is also an invention of civilization and

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Quote: On domestication

The destruction of the inner life is the penalty man has to pay for having no respect for any life other than his own Max Horkheimer, 1972

Article: How the Village Feast Helped Building Civilization (+Audio)

Village feasts did a lot to transform early sedentary farming communities from egalitarian bands to a complex, hierarchically structured society, and therefore play an important role in how our global

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