John Zerzan, Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization (2002)
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There's been a revolution in the fields of anthropology and archaeology over the past thirty years, and increasingly people are coming to understand that life before agriculture and domestication — of animals and ourselves — was in fact largely one of leisure, intimacy with nature, sensual wisdom, gender equality, and health.

— John Zerzan on Anarcho-primitivism

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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.