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Title: Destroying Industrial Society
Author: Craig Marshall
Language: en
Topics: direct action
Source: Retrieved on 1 January 2010 from http://www.greenanarchy.info/destroying_industrial_society.htm

Craig Marshall

Destroying Industrial Society

There are many people pulling out — rejecting society as we know it. The

numbers of these people are growing everyday, some may see this as a

good thing, however I don’t see this as a solution to the growing

environmental crisis. While these people who pull away from civilized

society are one up on those who take part in this death race called

civilization, many are doing nothing to dismantle the machine that’s

killing all of us. As I see it, the people who flee from consumer

society and don’t fight it are cowards. By fighting it I don’t mean

coming up with ways to avoid consumerism, I mean smashing the fucking

corporations that endanger and eradicate any/all life forms. We do need

to relearn alternative ways of living, but relearning how to coexist

with nature is only one half of the equation, because no matter how well

you live with nature, when everything dies you will too. This is why we

need to hit these corporations repeatedly, without mercy, for this is

precisely what they are doing to our ecosystems. Our little ecovillages

won’t mean shit when the air, water, and soil finally become pure

poison, which is what we are allowing to happen every moment we allow

factories to continually churn out more goods that consumers just

“need”. Even our language is corrupt — as if consumer goods are good.

This is one more way this industrial culture brainwashes consumers into

believing more is better. We need to destroy this consumer mentality,

but just as importantly, we need to destroy the institutions that

created it and those that perpetuate it. We need to get back to a

sustainable culture — one in which we live in harmony with nature — but

this will never happen as long as industrial wastes, from packaging to

poisons, are being pumped out by corporations whose only concern is

profits. People have been led to believe that comfortability and

security come from working half of their waking hours so they can buy

things that will save them time and energy. Am I the only one who sees

the utter ridiculousness of this? Fortunately not, but more of those who

see it need to realize that even if they stop participating in this

work/consume/die culture, the others that are still taking part, are

helping to poison all of us. While I personally don’t take issue with

these people dying, I think a much more effective tactic is to take out

the consumer goods at the point of production by destroying the

factories, power plants, and laboratories that enable such a cancerous

society to exist. Every moment that is not being spent on destroying

industrial society is tantamount to condoning its destruction of us and

every other life form. We are being poisoned by toxins that are being

pumped out 24 hours a day, yet the average person spends less than 24

seconds a week doing anything about it. Hopefully this doesn’t make you

pat yourself on the back if you do more, hopefully it makes you realize

how much harder those of us who are doing something need to attack.