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Andy Gibb
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Pathology is indeed a recurring theme: from the myriad physical diseases associated with domestication and agriculture; through industrial afflictions like cancer; to mental disorders. Zerzan mentions ADD. I could add ME ("it's not a disease" - Ricky Gervais), depression and alcoholism. Industrial medicine tries to treat them but when the heart and body are screaming one thing and the mind denies it, we have dis-ease
— May 10, 2014 02:24AM
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Andy Gibb
is on page 86 of 214
Again I've skipped a "composed" piece and found Zerzan in conversation with Derrick Jensen to be much more readable. Zerzan draws an interesting parallel of the events then (1998) with those leading up to World War I - the fractioning of states and their solution of an external war. He says that we wouldn't stand for that now. Well, Bush's war on terror has proved him wrong.
— May 06, 2014 03:24AM
Andy Gibb
is on page 45 of 214
Failing to finish the Introduction and two opening chapters (anti-time??), I felt I was running on less than empty. Then a transcript of a speech against technology came along and I could hear Zerzan's authentic voice, minus the knowing and name-dropping. It was readable. And so I gleaned one jaw-dropping thought: the gap between machines and humans is shrinking, but not because machines are becoming more human...
— Apr 30, 2014 10:46AM
