Why Hope? Quotes

“Collapse has to be understood as an aspect or consequence of development itself, especially when the movement of civilization has meant more work, greater discipline, more elaborate social hierarchies, and greater economic inequality, not to mention grave psychic dislocation and impoverishment, and the destruction of nature.”
― John Zerzan, Why Hope?: The Stand Against Civilization

“The apocalypse was yesterday, several thousand years ago, to be precise, and that nothing produced by civilization can ever redeem the systematic attempt it has undertaken these (very) few millennia to destroy or alienate any human connection with the Earth.”
― John Zerzan, Why Hope?: The Stand Against Civilization