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John Zerzan

Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization

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This book is about how technology is increasingly alienating humans from direct, natural experience. Zerzan is digging as deep as possible to the root of why humanity stinks at life so much...and he found it. Also discussed are the concept of time and how the humans before civilization probably did NOT live chained to the ticking of the clock. It was most interesting to note the slow progression of time keeping throughout history...spoiler: the church had a lot to do with this problem (no surprise here, I'm sure).

This book will help you understand true anarchy, not the punk variety. Anarchy is anti authoritarian, and he shows just how all authority leads to more and more problems. And guess what? if you like this book, you now MUST read Ted "unabomber" Kaczynski's life work, "Industrial society and it's future". Zerzan, btw, is friends with TK. he doesn't support his bombing campaign, but ideologically they are on the same exact page. You begin to see how crazy society is once you've witnessed yourself calling Kaczynski a nutjob and now you know he was one of the smartest men of his time...{shudders}

If you enjoy reading about Matrix style philosophies, against the Machine, things of this sort, this is your book.