just say no

[jojo808]

any questions ?  ...

[entropious88]

Love IT!

[majabsalu]

real talk Family in a nuttshell hope de people see da real i dis and not just as a video keep Screaming de TRUTH L1OVE

[Maramind]

This is so true

[toamaori]

haha great video, in reality water doesnt come from taps or bottles but from springs and streams :)

[pennilesscripple]

yep

and food doesn't come from grocery stores in plastic packages

[pennilesscripple]

it's a metaphor

of course we love the animals we share our lives with

but breeding is a metaphor for the way that civilization forces nature to serve its ends

if dog breeding stopped, all dogs would end up being about the same size in time

[cloud1232006]

great vids... watched the whole playlist :D

[pennilesscripple]

ha thanks cloud

wow i was just reading your insightful comments on z's video a few minutes ago :o)

[AdamHintz]

Well done. :)

[ReliableInsider]

See how docile and cute my soul looks in civilization. "Much less scary," says the CEO, chuckling to himself.

[pennilesscripple]

actually it's quite terrifying

[ReliableInsider]

Penniless,

Talk to me.

[SuzyKabloozy]

Awesome, awesome, love it -- that goes for both penniless' psa and ReliableInsider's line "See how docile and cute my soul looks..." I just discovered YouTube recently, while looking for Derrick Jensen interviews. Never did I expect to find such a wealth of anti-civ/pro-wild contributions. Penniless, I've looked at a bunch of your stuff already and I love it all. Your work is encouraging me to take the leap into life and away from civilization that I've been wanting to take for so long. Thanks.

[ReliableInsider]

Ya, penniless is amazing.

[pennilesscripple]

thank you suzy

check out zzz33333, adamhintz, vaahti, itsfilthy, ubertool/dnhooligan, quinnegorges, redpharmacist, (i reckon you found him)...oh...i know i'm forgetting peeps....

[beckweth]

How true.

[ItsTime2Fly]

All i can say

is in the words of mr

"D.J."

Swoosh ;P

Missing Y'a;;

[pennilesscripple]

hey fly great to seeya

i was wondering where you were....

heh wow thanks what a comment :o)

[ItsTime2Fly]

Im having some trans gender issues lol jk

one of us is actually Niffer so sorry if there is any confusion

you guys rock

keep it real ;P

[dmio2]

I picked up a masters degree somewhere along the path, but I am often struck by the fact that without "civilization" the so-called knowledge I gained would be utterly worthless. I suppose one has to adapt to the environment where we are thrust.

[pennilesscripple]

i have one too, dmio, and i'd say even with civilization it is worthless, as it fails to help us meet our true needs--actually gets in the way of us meeting our true needs for connection to the earth and each other. yes we adapt to the environment we're born in, but we also are alive and aware, and there comes a time when that environment is so toxic to our bodies and our souls that the only task in front of us is to dismantle it.

[dmio2]

I once saw a grandrounds by a psychiatrist that called the presentation "The Sylvan Analyst." His contention was that much of mental illness is caused by modern, especially urban, life. Evolutionarily our organisim in not far removed from the forest. Even just 100-years ago people lived largely agrarian lives. Our senses and ability to process are overwelmed by the amount of input we receive. Our environment has changed much faster then an organism can adapt.

[pennilesscripple]

ha yes i'm just now reading (as in a few minutes ago) chellis glendenning's book that says the same thing. many tribal societies don't have a word for suicide, and are baffled when they learn of it. our society, on the other hand, has witnessed a 600% increase in suicide over the past 30 years. and why should we adapt? we're not meant to....

[pennilesscripple]

oops 600% increase in *teenage* suicide

[orphandrift]

sikunews(dot)com/art(.dot)html­?artid=63&catid=16

*AAARRRRGGHHH!!!!!!*

[SohoSquare]

But set that dressed up dog out into the wild and it'll be eaten up within a day. If we stay in civilisation we'll only have bits of us chomped off at a time ;^) I liked the comparison. Very powerful.

[pennilesscripple]

yeah i had a really freaky thing happen the day after i made this video. (maybe i'll tell you about it some day.) thank you soho you say the right things at the right time. :)

[Minniver]

no...

[pennilesscripple]

that's a good doggie ;^)

[BIndeed]

i'm on a super old computer, so the sound skips and the howling is so creepy all chopped up like that.

[pennilesscripple]

i get a secret little thrill out of knowing i've unleashed that primal sound into some domesticated environments...let the unraveling begin.... ;^)

[davidaorta]

chihuahua?

[pennilesscripple]

hungry chihuahua

chewing on an old politician

who thinks that he's he-man

hungry chihuahua

[LizBizToo]

Excellence, PC, excellence :)

[FunToRelate]

wolf packs have a very rigid social order.

my body may trot with the poodles, but my spirit runs with the wolves.

[peas1my1life]

aroooo

[not2tees]

Yeah, lovely vid, penniless. Humans bred wolves over the centuries, and achieved chiuauas and pekinese and so on, and I do believe we have done the same to our own selves as we've done to the wolves. But my inner Peke looks out at the wilds and feels fear! It is one more trapped mutt, in civilization's pound.

[pennilesscripple]

fear of the wild is one of the cornerstones that keeps civilization in place. fear of the wild propaganda is embedded in all the media as well as everyday discourse. it's a collective delusion that gives civilization the license to dominate and destroy the natural world. the truth? the wild supports us.

[lapislazuline]

the delusion is we think we are seperate from the environment therefore we can plunder it with impunity whereas in our more wild forms and times we knew we were part of the whole and so were aware of the consequences of our actions,what made us forget?

[pennilesscripple]

i dunno lapis

seems like you're remembering pretty well ;^)

i don't think it's "we," as in human beings, but the forces of civilization that have brought on the forgetting, because that seems to be what holds the mass delusion in place...but it's not forgotten, eh? seems we slip in and out of it....

[lapislazuline]

there you go with that CIVILisation again:)

[pennilesscripple]

zzz33333 has two *excellent* videos that address this question

'the great forgetting' and

'the great remembering'

other videos of his address it too....

[lapislazuline]

i shall dig them up and comment on them,he,ll like that

[pennilesscripple]

yeah he will :)

[lapislazuline]

i,m on the case right now penn

[torpedofish]

I can SO relate. Thank you, pc.

[lapislazuline]

Wow my dogs went balistic when they heard that,it must have been something important i think.

[pennilesscripple]

yes it is

[PositivelyPrimitive]

That sound is eerie, it strikes a chord in me way down deep. We do not have wolves here but coyotes live down in our swamps and make that noise. I like it and I don't like it because that is also the sound they make when they eat my cats. Now my own dogs keep them at bay now, though. My dogs are strong, beautiful Real Dogs! :) Anne

[PositivelyPrimitive]

When I get a dog, I prefer Real Dogs as I call them. Either mutts or what I have now, extremnely mixed breeds resembling what happens when dogs are allowed to breed freely. I have brother and sister dogs from Puerto Rico where they do breed too freely. This dog become like a dingo over time, medium size, all similar in looks, strong, and unfortunately for humans, not very socialized and afriad of humans.

[1mcsource]

right on, smallest! ...daily routine, I tell myself, 'Go now, fall off the grid, connect with a dude named Jesse with bangin' bud & befriend a bear.' ...clever vid/insightful message...pz. -maxwell

[pennilesscripple]

good routine, maxwell

thanks for all the great tracks

[kewpiesbadhairday]

save to favorites

[Gimmeabreakman]

Great! Love it... Maggie reacted...

[pennilesscripple]

yeah it spoke to her inner wolf

[Gimmeabreakman]

Maggie has got a BIG inner wolf! NO KIDDING HERE! She is a hunter outside!

[8rf]

Beautiful. I just thought to make video about wolves. Sinchronicity.

[pennilesscripple]

arooooo

[zzz33333]

awesome