John Zerzan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.
-- John Zerzan

#Heart #Technology #People
We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.
-- John Zerzan

#Animal #Lost
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?
-- John Zerzan

#Dream #Dancing #Imagination
If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again
-- John Zerzan

#Long #Balance #Able
We don't need more stupid ideas.
-- John Zerzan

#Stupid #Ideas #Needs
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.
-- John Zerzan

#Fall #Bridges #Knowing
A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness between inner and outer worlds. At times we still feel a return to that unified state. T.S. Eliotâ€™s designation of our return is â€˜through the unknown remembered gate.'
-- John Zerzan

#Oneness #Survival #Literature
The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.
-- John Zerzan

#Liberty #Freedom To Choose #Brands
We have the freedom to choose between brand A, brand B, and brand C. ThatÂ´s about it for freedom.
-- John Zerzan

#Freedom To Choose #Brands
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.
-- John Zerzan

#Everyday #Glimpse #Culture
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
-- John Zerzan

#Everyday #Void #Anarchy
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 .
-- John Zerzan

#Roots #Long #Balance

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