Antilibrary
The domestication of man by Man is destroying Nature. To such a point , more and more, we feel ourselves maladjusted. Some believe that political and social reforms will solve the problem. But as Stirner sayd « you can’t change a piece of nonsense into sense by reforming it ; you must drop it outright ».The antilibrary gathers books demonstrating that Stirner is right - and that we really should sink the galley now!
Estienne de la Boetie COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW YORK "It is incredible how as soon as a people becomes subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and so willingly that one is led to say, on beholding such a situation, that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement."
Max Stirner Benj. R. Tucker, Publisher, 1907 "No sheep, no dog, exerts itself to become a " proper sheep, a proper dog"; no beast has its essence appear to it as a task, i.e. as a concept that it has to realize. It realizes itself in living itself out, i.e. dissolving itself, passing away. It does not ask to be or to become anything other than it is."
Pierre Clastres
Society Against the State -excerpt - pdf version Publisher: Zone Books "The Indians devoted relatively little time to what is called work. And even so, they did not die of hunger. The chronicles of the period are unanimous in describing the fine appearance of the adults, the good health of the many children, the abundance and variety of things to eat. Consequently, the subsistenceeconomy in effect among the Indian tribes did not by any means imply an anxious, full-time search for food."
Robert Dehoux Publisher: bob dangerfield "And this is how progress works : it puts roads and railroads all over the place. It pushes along those paths every struggler for what they call a life but is only a survival of sorts. It deprives the planet of Nature. It changes it into an unrecognizable world for anyone who, like Indians, knows what genuineness means. And it deprives the Whites themselves of what they never stop to search after: a life worthy of the name."
Théodore Kaczinsky - Unabomber Industrial Society and its Future - pdf version The New York Times. and Washington Post "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. …"
John Zerzan future-primitive - pdf version "We have taken a monstrously wrong turn with symbolic culture and division of labor, from a place of enchantment, understanding and wholeness to the absence we find at the heart of the doctrine of progress. Empty and emptying, the logic of domestication with its demand to control everything now shows us the ruin of the civilization that ruins the rest. Assuming the inferiority of nature enables the domination of cultural systems that soon will make the very earth uninhabitable.…"
John Zerzan "As the materialization of alienation, agriculture is the triumph of estrangement and the definite divide between culture and nature and humans from each other. […] The land itself becomes an instrument of production and the planet’s species its objects. […] Hunter-gatherer life was anti-time in its simultaneous and spontaneous openness; farming life generates a sense of time by its successive-task narrowness, its directed routine.…"
John Zerzan Time And its Discontents - pdf version source "…We have gone along with the substantiation of time so that it seems a fact of nature, a power existing in its own right. The growth of a sense of time--the acceptance of time--is a process of adaptation to an ever more reified world. It is a constructed dimension, the most elemental aspect of culture. Time's inexorable nature provides the ultimate model of domination.…"
Daniel Quinn Ishmael - Gorilla Digest - pdf version “The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.”
“Naturally a prison must have a prison industry. It helps to keep the inmates busy. It takes their minds off the boredom and futility of their lives. Our prison industry? Consuming the world.”