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
Article: The Cetacean Brain and Hominid Perceptions of Cetacean Intelligence
More evidence to shatter the arrogant anthropocentric world view: It is very likely that we humans are not the most intelligent creatures on earth. We often associate intelligence with tool
Article: The Costs of Civilization
PsychologyToday dispels the common myths about primitive people and bashes civilization!! Open your eyes and see that there is another way apart from our insane destructive society. “Did you know,
Article: The Movement to Dismantle Civilization
Good argumentation for our case: permaculture and several anti-civilization movements (such as Deep Green Resistance) have a lot more in common than everyone thinks. The main premises and motivations point
Article: The Great Forgetting
Good summary of what Quinn called “The Great Forgetting”. There IS an alternative, a different, SUSTAINABLE lifestyle that works for humans, as well as all other animals. It’s just now
Article: Animal Intelligence Has Been Widely Underestimated, Says Primatologist Frans De Waal
The Washington Post spreading primitivist ideas: We are not as special as we think we are. Human arrogance led us to believe we are hovering far above nature, which we
Article: The Arctic Suicides – It’s Not The Dark That Kills You
A very moving article about suicides (especially among young men) in Greenland. What Quinn called “Cultural Collapse” happened/is happening to the Greenlandic Inuit, and has happened before to all native
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
Article: Forced Contact With Amazon People Would Be ‘Genocide’
How arrogant are the people of our culture – what’s so difficult about leaving them alone if they don’t want any contact? Can’t they speak for themselves and know what’s
Article: Chimpanzees and Monkeys Have Entered the Stone Age
Inspiring article. Shouldn’t we allow other species to advance, too? How interesting would it be to live in a world with many different highly intelligent creatures who can communicate and