"Thomas Toivonen's "Dead Society'...centers around an interview with John Zerzan, anarcho-primitivist philosopher and author who give[s] his view on the problem with civilization and what can be done about it."


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=34...h&plindex=0

I felt very peaceful after watching this docu. Although I dont agree entirely with some of the things that are said in it, and it is put together in a very experimental way (Like the guys face turning around in the room... what was that about?), it has some great points that are worth thinking about.

thanks for this docu, love the swedish way of thinking,
Peace and love!

The motif of the caged monkey (separated from the natural environment) in a repetitive non-dance of circular motions (stereotypy..repeated, unvarying and functionless behaviors performed by captive animals in distress). We are similarly imprisoned in ' technology as milieu (the city as an artificial product of technology, totally dead - glass, steel, cement, concrete, and divorced from nature) which is the catalyst for our personal alienation from self and others.' (Jacques Ellul). John Zerzan's call for "Future Primitive" (embracing of the wild) has an appeal well beyond a Ray Mears fascination, its the just walking away aspect of "Into the Wild"..."we have created a doom machine [technology]; in our search for wealth and prosperity we have created something that is going to destroy us." (Robert Monk). Anarcho-primitives are definitely bleak in their assessment of our industrialized society (dead)..."we reach out and no one is there, turn inward and find nothing inside. There is a sense of nightmare, and there is real madness" (Burt Alpert)..."the dominant culture hates everything even itself, it has a death urge and unless it stops its going to kill everything on the planet including itself. There will be no glorious tomorrow..." (Derrick Jensen). Your peaceful feeling coincides with the docs conclusion of the anarcho-primitive vision: the 'many happy returns' dance with nature..."a final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution." (Alexander Supertramp). [ Anarcho-primitives also call for militant monkeywrenching, which could lead to a very concrete form of lock-up.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUSBXsd8NkQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6VuCl-flto