John Zerzan, Future Primitive and Other Essays (1994)
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Never before have people been so infantilized, made so dependent 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 on Machine

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Never before have people been so infantilized, made so dependent 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." in the context of "John Zerzan, Future Primitive and Other Essays (1994)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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John Zerzan

About John Zerzan

John Zerzan (born in Salem, 10th August 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author.