Richard Manning on the Psychosis of Civilization

http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com presents another clip as part of the "Why Are Things Falling Apart?" series. In this one, Richard Manning exposes civilization for what it is: a form of psychosis -- a human zoo.

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• human zoo
• ecopsychology
• evolutionary psychology
• civilization
• psychosis of modern life
• disconnection
• animals
• anti-civ
• peak oil
• sustainability

[gortijx]

@PrimeConsciousness

False. An animal never massacres the weak. He/she only kill one to fulfill his/her needs, if they are not hungry, they do not even cast an eye on you.

Nature is a compassionate balance that we have become so disconnected from that we now consider it a "compassionless exterminator of the weak" when it's far from.

Study hunter-gatherer groups throughout history and you will be amazed.

[rootthetoot1]

This film was and is an amazing film that dwelves deep into the roots of our global crisis.

"The conflict between humanity and nature is an extension of the conflict between human and human. Unless the ecology movement encompasses the problem of domination in all its aspects, it will contribute nothing toward eliminating the root causes of the ecological crisis of our time." Murray Bookchin

[Bruce777999]

Clever man.

[mlknight14]

@gortijx False? What about dolphins that kill baby porpoises for fun? What about the dolphins that kill pregnant porpoises, specifically targetting the fetus (using their ultrasound)? What about chimpanzees that go on hunts for other chimpanzees, specifically targetting the weak? The more you look, the more you will find incidents like these. You are like the people claiming homosexuality is unnatural and not present in the wild. You are a naive fool.

[Clanki]

We are crazy. Not difficult to see. Both crazy AND stupid

[otacon451]

@juliaisafilmbuff123 Kibbutzes have done very well although they have extreme ethnic solidarity and a notably elevated mean IQ. Their children also leave the settlements at a very high rate. I'm not aware of any other functional modern large scale experiments in extreme egalitarianism. Anarcho communism is the core of modern anarchism and they dont accept any traditional or primitive forms of society.

The extreme erosion of the ecological and cultural landscape will require a state soln.

[juliaisafilmbuff123]

@otacon451 So why doesn't that work? Stateless societies based on equality have done very well.

[otacon451]

@juliaisafilmbuff123 you cant base a society on maximizing the equality and freedom of its lowest common denominator.

[juliaisafilmbuff123]

@otacon451 What do you mean "no serious answers"?

[otacon451]

@juliaisafilmbuff123 after reading anti civ, post civ, primitivist, and anarchist materials for several years i'm confident they offer no serious answers to ongoing social and ecological erosion.

[otacon451]

@juliaisafilmbuff123 true. however survival, and thriving, occurs on a community level.  community exists when a collective identity supersedes individualism in favor of organic society, ie one with a center. i think biologically rooted, environmentally modified variations among humans determine social roles. traditional societies embody this. it sounds obscure/dumb, but consider reading the first few pages of an essay titled 'the french new right in the year 2000'.