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Title: Manifesto #0
Author: Vanguard of the Apocalypse
Language: en
Topics: anti-civ
Source: Retrieved on 1 January 2010 from www.greenanarchy.info/manifestozero.php.html

Vanguard of the Apocalypse

Manifesto #0

vanguard n

1: the units moving at the head of an army

2: artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time

3: the position of greatest advancement; the leading position in any

movement or field

apocalypse n

1: the end of the world (the civilized world)

Beyond the romantic imagery of ruins — feral foragers and neo-primitives

living amidst smoldering skyscrapers torn apart by weeds and the

disquieting welcome of wrist-thick kudzu vines; beyond the religious

connotation and notions of prophetic “end times” predictions — we want

the apocalypse. We wish to see the end of the world as we know it and

the birth of the unknown. This is an active engagement, physically and

emotionally.

We are not content on waiting. Whether or not the “end is near” is not a

point of contention. Though we can feel catastrophe in our hearts and

distress in our souls we are not deluded by anticipating

inevitabilities. Leave the stages of social evolution and revolution

(...capitalism, civilization, catastrophe?) to the Marxists! What we

want now is not because of what may happen — no matter how close to the

edge our culture is teetering (and we don’t deny that it is). What we

want now is because of what is happening — we can no longer bear the

weight of civilization destroying our connection to each other and the

natural community...alienating us to the point where “home sweet home”

is a prison... where extinction is a necessary evil.

This world — the civilized world — is a threat to all life and we are

not content to sit and watch that threat become closer and closer to us

a reality. We see very little to save in this world... we have no

hope... and we have no delusions. This world is a threat that cannot be

fixed, transformed, reformed, or radicalized. This world is a threat and

we wish to see it destroyed.

What we want is an apocalypse — an end of the civilized world and the

birth of new worlds unknown.

Our apocalypse is of the natural, not supernatural, order. We don’t

believe in a Great Cleansing. We just want to be wild and free...to live

in a world of spontaneity, chance, and chaos. The capacity to be free is

a capacity that has been denied to everything living by civilization. To

destroy civilization is to allow this capacity to be regained.

The apocalypse we want will not cleanse the world of sinners and keep

only saints — this is a reality. Anyone can survive. Capitalists and

communists, workers and slaves, green anarchists and green berets alike.

The paradigm of civilization may not go down with its body but the

direct threat to all life will have disappeared for a long, long time.

Civilizations may pop up, but they will never reach their monolithic

status so long as pockets of wild and feral resistance still exist.

Should we halter our dreams and activities in the face of something that

may or may not eventually happen — post-apocalyptic war, roving bands of

thugs, the rebuilding of civilization? Should we stifle the chance for

freedom in the face of fear (of being free to do whatever we want)? If

anything...we’ll die free...and what an exciting time to live and die it

will be!

We don’t wish for a return to anything. What we don’t want is to return

to the Golden Age of Perfection because we know perfection is a lie —

and a highly civilized one at that! We don’t want to be Inuit, !Kung,

Kayapo, Navajo, Amish, Australopithecines or Pan troglodytes. While the

lessons of the past are invaluable, and what these groups may have to

teach is important, we recognize the fallacy of emulation. We want to

create our own cultures out of the ashes of this monoculture; to rewrite

the future in a thousand different ways. These groups — ancestors and

kin — transmit to us, no matter how indirect, lessons we must transform

so that they work for us. We see them as inspirations, not models, for

the new worlds.

We don’t claim leadership, authority, or prophecy on the future; we will

not be the elite feral humans existing amongst the ruins of metropoles,

but we figure if this world — the civilized world — must end, why not be

on the front lines? Beyond the romantic imagery of ruins and the

prophecy of inevitability we are prepared...prepared to bring on the

apocalypse — mentally, spiritually, and physically.

Sincerely,

The Kudzu-clad Vanguard of the Apocalypse