Yu Koyo Peya (pt. 1)

A documentary by Tyler Kimble on Peak Oil and the possibility of collapse from a primitivist perspective. Part 1 of 3.

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• peakoil
• civilization
• collapse
• energy
• primitivism
• oil

[Bernd1964]

I think mankind could easily and fast end up in a huge and never ending hopeless resource crisis. Most human cultures deplete available resources as fast as they can. I guess there's a subconcious wish or drive in human brains to progress, to expand and to materialize history, leading to overshoot and collapse in a finite world.

[anthropik]

Don't the first 1-3 million years of human existence in sustainable, tribal societies suggest that it has very little to do with anything innately human? Even today, most human cultures don't do that: just a small number of incredibly large ones.

[CheeChee21]

Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!

I wish it was longer.

[anthropik]

Did you see parts 2 and 3?

[LarkaSojourn]

BRILLIANT ! MAKE MORE VIDEO.

[LarkaSojourn]

BRILLIANT! WELL DONE VID.

[korras21]

neither black, nor white. I've started growing

[FutureCollapse]

Will you grow your own food, or stay at the keyboard?

[korras21]

makes me want to grow my own food..

[Salamandra09]

That is why this video defends primitivism.

The return to tribal old times.

[TylerDurdenInc]

Here is Wiki-def for Civ:

A civilization or civilisation is a society or culture group normally defined as a complex society characterized by the practice of agriculture and settlement in cities.

Compared with less complex cultures, members of a civilization are organized into a diverse division of labour and an intricate social hierarchy.

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Social hierarchies, agriculture, cities, and division of labor are not extent in tribal societies. Tribes do not equal civilizations.

[TylerDurdenInc]

I agree, except I'm not sure I really desire going much further. I've already heard so many of these arguments and my real concern is in seeing this planet survive industrial civilization before there is nothing left to this beautiful planet. Whether you or I are correct matters little in the long run of things. I cherish the day this all comes down, and hope we learn our lesson this time round.

[TylerDurdenInc]

I'd actually argue that they had greater mental capacity than you and I. At least they had the sense not to destroy the land they depended on.

[TylerDurdenInc]

Chief is a french word. The Europeans assumed that the "chiefs" were the "leaders" of the tribe. They were actually elders or advisers. They could not actually tell anyone what to do. A little study into Native American culture and you would learn this to be true. The difference in gardening and farming is scale. Large scale is far more aggressive because it requires the destruction of the landbase, but small scale, can be done without being so destructive and therefore is more sustainable.