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Title: The Now Problem Author: Mr. Caveman Date: September 6th, 2020 Language: en Topics: anarcho-primitivism, primativism, primal anarchy, neolithic revolution
“Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains”. The expanding growth
caused directly by the rise of society’s first Neolithic Revolution gave
birth to the cynical, cruel and disgustingly egocentric lifestyle that
man so grossly and erroneously dubs his natural state. The truth that
mankind was not once the inherently selfish and vile force we love to
call it today is perhaps one of the hardest truths there is. Mother
Nature gives us life, such as with all her creatures, and we lived in
accordance with her natural creation for millions of years. The land was
pristine and untouched, as it should be. The flora and fauna of the
earth lived in natural order and accordance with their natural state as
much as we did. The first humans were the most serene. Beyond peaceful;
they embodied human perfection. So perfect, in fact, that the weakest
man of the Pleistocene Epoch outmatches the strongest man of our time in
every sense of the word. But where did we go so wrong? What is the
solution? The fact of the matter is that society shifting from a
hunter-gatherer culture to an agrarian one is only Pandora’s box; we’ve
been at a constant decline ever since. War, famine, death, destruction,
violence, technology, greed, and conflict are all but symptoms of the
horror that presents itself as ‘human progress’. The day the straw
breaks the camel’s back is crawling towards us every waking day, and
soon we will view through our computers and phones the fiery man-made
end of the world beyond our comprehension.
The root of our issues, no matter what corner you turn, will always
emanate from the domestication of flora, or the Neolithic Revolution. We
human beings no longer had to gather plants to pertain to our dietary
needs. We no longer found clans in a nomadic band society, adhering to
more sedentary civilizations. Aside from the fact that human beings were
doing perfectly fine without this change, the Neolithic Revolution
engendered greed and property. From greed, hierarchy was established.
From property, laws were established. When humans lived in a
hunter-gatherer society, any able-bodied person was able to maintain a
self-sufficient lifestyle on his own. When agriculture was domesticated,
society had to develop laws to protect it, as Jean-Jacque Rousseau says.
Those who enjoy submission or believe in hierarchy complied, but those
who recognized the untapped, unrestrained freedom of the Paleolithic Era
defied the societal laws, giving rise to the concept of crime. Across
all anthropological and archaeological studies and findings, there have
been no records of deviance, betrayal, or treason in primitive,
pre-agrarian societies. The notion that humans are naturally selfish or
malevolent is a fundamentally true statement, but those who say it fail
to realize that there was once a time where humans were naturally
benevolent and compassionate of others. You can’t break a crime if the
law does not exist. In fact, the entire concept was unprecedented; no
early human had any incentive to commit heinous and vile acts such as
unjust murder, rape, genocide, torture, or slavery until specific laws
were put in place, telling them not to. (The point is solidified when
one acknowledges that crimes like rape, slavery, and genocide are a
direct result of power dynamics put in place by hierarchy).