22 Quotes by John Zerzan

Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

We don’t need more stupid ideas.

If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that’s overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .