«Children of Ted: Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes.»

This article has got Kaczynski, Jacobi, Kingsnorth, DGR, Atassa, ITS—in mainstream media. It's kind of odd. Of course it is missing Heidegger, Ellul, Camatte, Mumford, Illich, Næss, Watson, Perlman, Zerzan, Sale… any real seminal thinker you could care to name. To me this signals that the article is not primarily about ideas, but about this weird modern phænomenon that the mainstream doesn't fully understand. Still interesting though.


http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/t...lytes.html

source - sent by a friend

The Need for Method
by Zhachev

As the level of popular combativity to the ecological crisis develops across the world, the need for action and theoretical clarity in the anti-civilization milieu is posed more sharply than ever. It is important that groupings should show themselves capable of drawing up a balance sheet of what has been achieved in this domain during the last two decades, and of learning its lessons for the future.

The grouping of ecoextremists can no longer be left to chance. It demands a consistent method, based on openness to debate, combined with a rigorous defense of principle.

Such a method must avoid two dangers: on the one hand, that of falling into “debate for debate’s sake”, mere academic chatter, in which everyone says what they like without any concern to establish a dynamic towards common action; on the other hand, the illusion that it is possible to engage in common work on a technical basis, without first being clear on principles — principles which can only be determined by open debate.

Ecoextremists have a task to accomplish: the permanent destruction of mass industrial civilization and his-story itself. In carrying out this task, our agency is presently extremely limited. Ecoextremists therefore have a responsibility to intervene against the continued destruction of the wilderness, in order to defend nature, and to work for the end of society.

We should be in no doubt about the eventual purpose of this aggroupment, which is the formation of a decentralized and highly coordinated armed fighting force, the last one, without which a successful defense of nature against the state is an impossibility.

The work of aggroupment has several facets, related but distinct:

- the integration of individual ecoguerillas into decentralized, highly-coordinated groupings, since the very principle of the defense of nature is that of decentralize collective action on the basis of a common commitment to the end of civilization;

- the groups emerging in the periphery of the most difficult conditions of material deprivation and political isolation can only survive, and play their role in the worldwide attack on the state and civilization, if they can break out of their isolation and become part of a wider movement;

- finally, all ecodefenders, and above all what we may term the old groups (those with a direct historical role in the defense of nature in the past) have a responsibility to show the rest of us that there is a fundamental difference, a clear line, drawn between all those groups and organizations which stand firm on the defense of nature without compromise, and those groups, organizations, and parties who are committed to the principles of non-violence, which we oppose. In other words, the ecoextremists must clearly delimit and defend a holistic, naturalistic, pluralist anti-political milieu.

Zhachev
12/2018

The Il Torobo are an H-G group who live alongside the Maasai in Kenya, Africa.


LETILET OLE YENKO
A hunter-gatherer with no formal schooling, Letilet’s knowledge about the world he inhabits and of botanical facts is remarkable. Equipped by his upbringing and ancestral traditions with skills for survival in their natural landscape, Letilet and his friends are now forced to make a quantum leap into the twenty-first century. Letilet now uses a solar-powered mobile phone and drives a car.

SUSIE ALLAN
Susie, born and living in Kenya, has over forty years of experience in luxury tented safaris in Kenya and tourism in Africa. She managed her own successful safari camp, Ol Seki Mara Camp in the Koiyaki Group Ranch north of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Here she met Letilet and indulged in her passion for plants, traditional artefacts and wild places. She feels blessed to have had the friendship of Letilet and all those who made this book happen.


More:

http://susieallan.wix.com/letiletstales#...us-/-order


Also, a short film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ul5uIpJWbQ

Hey ya'll:

I'm putting together an anti-civ journal called Incendia, as some of you may be aware. It will be print-only, and priced competitively, in order to profit from the comfortable middle class and above lifestyle of some in the milieu.

I'm looking for art, articles, poetry, etc. to publish. Depending on the subject and length of the article, I'm offering $0.02-0.04 per word in USD.

Shoot me an DM if interested.

During this time of year, I am enjoying rediscovering these old films by the NFB from the early 1960s. I remember watching some of these in school as a child.  They give insight into the traditional lifeways of the Inuit, Inuvialuit of the Western Canadian arctic, and Inupiat of Eastern Alaska.

This is a series called Tuktu (a fictional name, but probably derived from Tuktoyuktuk, a town in the far north.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuktoyaktuk


Tuktu 1: Clothing and its Importance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEyQG2cv298


Tuktu 2: How to build a kayak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbwNdes0SY


Tuktu 3: Hand Skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzlmOvVH4c


Tuktu 4: How to build a snow palace igloo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWKfJQpZtaM&t=4s


Tuktu 5: Indoor games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4oj0sg2m54


Tuktu 6: More indoor games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFX7or7Vek8


Tuktu 7: Fishing with a Rock Weir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6li84mjUZT8


Tuktu 8: The Magic Bow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CFqptMUlPE


Tuktu 9: The Magic Spear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sdJA1M0XcQ


Tuktu 10: The Caribou Hunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YK5SUOF44U


Tuktu 11: Seal Hunting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z824vCrG5iQ


Tuktu 12: Dogs and their importance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIsXsXBw6oI


Tuktu 13: Animal Friends of the Arctic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_mRpgS8f10


Also:

Encyclopedia Britannica film about an Inuit family in 1959:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9oIYE4iWMk

(I'm thinking this could be from Alaska, judging from the clothing, facial features and the landscape. So probably the Yupik Eskimo, rather than Canadian Inuit)

I'd like to start a discussion on the Earth First! group and its history.

Founded after a long campaign of climate action in the `60s and `70s, which was perceived as going mainstream, EF!s first leaders were Ed Abbey (author of The Monkeywrench Gang and Hayduke Lives!), Dave Foreman, and a few others.

Abbey has an interesting story. WWII veteran, later conscientious objector (which landed him on the FBI watchlist for the duration of his life) and deep green anarchist. Dave Foreman is similar, but I haven't paid enough attention to know the specificities.

They were both alienated at times for "racism". I'm not completely sure where this comes from, besides both of them being European-Americans and opposing immigration to North America, both legal and otherwise, on the basis it was good for the climate. Abbey's sexual politics were quite bad as well, similar to people like Derrick Jensen and Lierre Kieth today. Ed Abbey wasn't quite anti-civ by his own measures, but was accused of being so by the American press. Here are his own words on the subject:

Quote:“I was accused of being against civilization, against science, against humanity. Naturally, I was flattered and at the same time...how, I replied, being myself a member of humanity (albeit involuntarily, without prior consultation), could I be against humanity without being against myself, whom I love - though not very much...” (Desert Solitaire)

When she was a practicing occupational therapist, Elizabeth Fain started noticing something odd in her clinic: Her patients were weak. More specifically, their grip strengths, recorded via a hand-held dynamometer, were “not anywhere close to the norms” that had been established back in the 1980s.

Fain knew that physical activity levels and hand-use patterns had changed a lot since then. Jobs had become increasingly automated, the professional and service sectors had grown, all sorts of measures of physical activity (like the likelihood that a child walks to school) had declined, and the personal computer age had dawned. But to see the numbers decline so steeply and quickly was still a surprise, and not just to her.

http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/raising-...n-weakling

Old NFB film on the traditional Inuit method of constructing an igloo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3pd-wxNEKQ

Heard about this forum on John Zerzan's  radio show. Was curious about Zerzan after reading Technological Slavery by Kaczynski. Would be excited to collaborate with like minded's in NH,Maine, New England area
That's the main reason I'm here.
 Would love to chat with a few of you from other areas inside this land mass either way. Looks like some good folks here. 
                          A few of my thoughts:
1) Instead of posting too much usable "data" pertaining to ourselves for the system to gobble up I like intelligence sharing on enemy (system) specifics: Where the newest wind farms are going up? Where the data storage centers are located? What are the most important (to the controllers) technological advancement projects happening? What are the latest scientific achievements that are important to the "controllers"?
Who & where are the leaders in technological and scientific advancements that the "controllers" hold dear.   Basically sharing intel. After all, the system knows enough about us. It's time to use this god damned thing (computer) to find out specifics on system advancement supporters. 
        What's the address of Dr Steven H Walker ? (he's the director of D.A.R.P.A.)
Just an example of info that I think we should make public (at least on this forum)
 2) We don't want to be hypocrites right ?  Advocating for anti tech whilst using the internet.
I am looking to set examples and organize enough of us to go OFFLINE for a MONTH to not only reduce the "DATA" the the controller's are feeding off of but hopefully, with the help from some savvy hackers confuse the hell out of the algorythims (or whatever the fuck they're called).
Basically overload the data centers with bullshit and then disappear for a month (for starters)
I think we should do this early in 2019. 
 3) I believe in an incremental road to Revolution that we can all nudge along. Kaczynski says to promote Revolution you must live oppositely from what the system requires. (Anti-Civ. right ?)
Has all to do with INDEPENDENCE. Removing the BS from our lives.
               Thanks, Hoot

Work and school life in South Korea have become so stressful and bad, that some people are paying to escape it, by temporarily staying in a prison-like community to be alone:

HONGCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - For most people, prison is a place to escape from. For South Koreans in need of a break from the demands of everyday life, a day in a faux jail is the escape.

“This prison gives me a sense of freedom,” said Park Hye-ri, a 28-year-old office worker who paid $90 to spend 24 hours locked up in a mock prison.

Since 2013, the “Prison Inside Me” facility in northeast Hongcheon has hosted more than 2,000 inmates, many of them stressed office workers and students seeking relief from South Korea’s demanding work and academic culture.

“I was too busy,” said Park as she sat in a 5-sq-m (54-sq-foot) cell. “I shouldn’t be here right now, given the work I need to do. But I decided to pause and look back at myself for a better life.”


More:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-south...SKCN1NS0JB