Anarchist ASMR: Excerpts & Thoughts on Against Civilization by John Zerzan
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Put your headphones on/earbuds in and enjoy the sounds of nature recorded one morning in mid-Spring as I lean against a friend surrounded by our cousins in the woodland of southeastern Pennsylvania. I share my thoughts on some excerpts from what is one of the greatest books ever put together. How fitting to read this book out in nature; I couldn't have timed it any better. And in the spirit of Anarchism: I turned off ads/monetization for this video.
00:00:00 Video intro/preface
00:20:38 Back cover synopsis
00:22:35 Publish date/Cited Authors
00:24:02 Foreword
00:29:42 Introduction
00:35:53 Preface
00:42:09 Excerpts
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Uncle Paul, love you.. I sleep just because of you
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@@darrenchan2765 ah well
City life is only a prison if you allow it to be. If you seek change, act. It’s up to each individual to forge their own path in life. No path is easy. Small towns within driving distances of cities feel good to me. Land in those areas is cheaper, you can easily have nature in your back yard, and you can enjoy city life if you feel the need. Variety. Anyway, I wish everyone well.
I hope to live in a small town like you described, some day.
Confirmed. I'm a New Yorker, and as expensive as the city is, all you really need to do is drive 8-15 minutes in any direction and the land is dirt cheap. We have some of the most underrated nature up North, too. Good mountain, forests, etc.
@@davemccombstruth that, the adirondacks are popular, but not as popular as they probably should be
It all has to do with population density. After a certain point, i could see it having negative effects on people’s mental state. My cousin lived in a big New England city and was paying insane rents. He’s in a mental hospital now for alcoholism.
@GlennBaldiYT I’m an engineer. It’s a logical profession but bad bosses can ruin any job. It got so bad that I’m trying to switch careers. Going to try to open my own business. Not exactly very anarchist but it’ll give me some freedom.
Uncle Rift, i just want to say thank you for making these amazing videos. Your voice is so soothing and that sanctioned feeling. I love these nature videos you do and i dont want you to stop either. Your the reason why im able to sleep.
The framing of this video is so perfect, I love it. You’re a natural Paul!!
heheh appreciate the sentiment, but anyone can do it! ;)
I am so happy to see you doing more nature/philosophy videos. I do remember that We belong in nature video.
This is one of my favorite videos you have ever made. Perfect mix of discussion, nature, and the soundscape is great
never clicked on a video within a minute of it being uploaded until now
YES this is just the type of video I was waiting for!!!
The nature sounds remind me of 2009 like this is actually amazing !
Film Theory needs to discuss the lore in his videos
That would be awesome
Yes I am watching it around the time it’s been published! 😁
The most refreshing version of Ephemeral Rift, Thank you friend Embrace the Inevitable Change Love from Australia ~Dallas
If you'd like more books on the philosophies underpinning Indigenous practices of living with the Earth, I _HIGHLY_ suggest 'Braiding Sweetgrass' by Robin Wall Kimmer. And 'Andrewism' on KZhead is a fascinating and well thought out source of anarchist food for thought!
i will try my best to look into them, thanks!
I’ll second the recommendation of Andrewism, an incredibly important voice flat out but especially in the left/anarchist space
Thank you for the advice for the book
HOLY SHIT NO WAY MY FAVORITE PHILSOPHER AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE KZheadRS
Ive been stuck inside a bunch to study for exams, its nice to hear forest sounds... its still cold where I am...
I found this in my library at university recently, found it really telling as well as other anti-civ books definitely changed my mind on a lot of things.
OHMYGOD NEW VIDEOOOO ♥️♥️♥️
The nature rampage run of videos is neat
Thx for the Video.
Nice to run into you on this forest nap!
Beautiful imagery and sounds
profile pic storytelling has to be my favourite gimmick so far
i wish it could be animated, like a gif.
I'm really curious to know which 5 books have impacted you the most. it would be great if you could share a reading list here or on your twt. thanks a lot, and love your content
i can do that.give it a week or so as i already have other plans
@@EphemeralRift looking forward to it!
Juat watched your comic book collection video from 10 years ago. Would love to see an updated one if you have obtained more over the last 10 years
I haven't LOL.
Honestly tho these videos are a nice change of pace. Reminds me of Alan Wake somehow, probably cause of the forest. Makes me wonder what a Alan Wake Ephemeral Rift Style Roleplay ASMR video would be like.
Unc E these Anarchist vids are the best!! Fuck yeah
I would love to see more on the red book!
Hey ephemeral rift, I think something worth reading as a critic of this authenticity seeking in primitivist way of thinking is adornos jargon of authenticity. If you end up checking it out id love to know what you think.
I will try. My reading moments come and go in spurts.
@@EphemeralRift For me, Audiobooks and text to speech readers help me get the most out of my reading momentum when it comes. Though I know many feel they take away from the understanding one gets when really reading a text, they allow me to better integrate continuous learning into my everyday in a way otherwise impossible and definitely become more effective with time. Maybe worth a try next time the drive to read comes
Nature hits diff. Nowadays we stuck with our phones technologies sometimes we gotta take a break i guess¡¡AT LEAST THIS IS MY OPINION
I had an idea for one of your futur video of you are interested. You have made a quest giver video in the past, but not the reward part of it. Maybe you could do on where a bounty hunter full of done quests comes to claim all of his rewards?
You will always be the greatest anarchist and asmr artist in my eyes ❤ you share many of my views in anarchy especially. If i wasnt so dependant on capitalism i would be a full blown "down with the factory farms, overthrow the government" but i cant really do so *yet* but oh well
same!
Makes me wanna re-read the Endgame duology by Derrick Jensen
Anarcho Primitivism is an interesting philosophy. I'm anarcho socialist mostly as I don't see any good way to regress society back to a primitive state, or how to maintain that state. So I say we should keep moving forwards rather than looking back I find it interesting that most of the problems with society in that book seems to specifically be issues with capitalism. The businessmen, the constant drive for more and more money, jobs, a lack of personal freedom in preference for eternal grinding for money. . .
The book is more than just anti-capitalist propaganda. I only read half of it, but there's plenty more on various topics, one being health and happiness of people in civilization vs primitive, and not at all related to capitalism. Oh and as for your other point about going back to a more primitive lifestyle, I agree. I think we're too far gone. To me, it's getting worse.
@@EphemeralRift Personally I have a bit more hope for the future than that? But its mostly due to current scientific projections that global warming's cost in damages will outpace capitalism's earnings in around two to four decades. At which point the current system will collapse and yeah I'll probably die during the resulting global catastrophe that sends us back into the bronze age but hopefully those people who survive will go on and not make the same mistakes again.
@@EphemeralRift Maybe but if we are too far gone, then primitivism is just as useless. I am an anarchist and have been for a while under the post-left/anti-civ framework but I am under no illusion that this movement will kickoff again.
A perfect video to sharpen my knife to
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Rift I think you would love Scott stillman books. There fanstastic about our place in the world as it relates to the wilderness
Not sure I ever heard that name but I'll try to look into them, thx
This is great. Interesting, peaceful, nature, Paul; check, check, check, and check.
And you with me don’t forget!
This is an interesting conversation regarding nature and civilisation, because First Nations/aboriginals/Amerindians had organised civilisation that involved preventative tree burning and things like that. It's just scale and scope that really turns modern society into a destructive one.
Yeah, I'm not an expert on every tribe/society, etc. And maybe every indigenous/etc will end up like us given the time? I don't know. There's the uncontacted tribes on Sentinel island, so... shrug
Have you read The Art of Not Being Governed by James C Scott? It’s an interesting read.
i have not. Lots of books i "need" "should" read but just so little time
I don't know why but it seems to me that Uncle R is turning into Dutch from rdr2
I have recently been looking into maps and data about virgin forests, it makes me beyond sad to see that such places basically only exist in a few hand picked places on earth. Whole continents without any forests in their natural state, billions of people who can never experience true nature.
eres el mejor
I like the nature videos a lot - with your commentary they're very soothing. Without the commentary they are nice as a background, but they dont induce ASMR, at least to me.
I hear ya (about the ASMR). As for my speaking/not-speaking, I do try to mix it up. Honestly, the voice of nature is greater/more important than my own voice. But I do like to talk, so lol ;)
3:31 It is in fact a cancer, and a prison at the same time.
Another amazing video 😊
The new profile pic kinda looks like a sonic oc to me
Am I the only one that thinks the new thumbnail looks like a pokemons face?
This is an interesting discussion, but I tend to think terms like "civilization" and "primitive" can obscure our thinking about these issues. Were the hunter-gatherers who built Göbekli Tepe 11,000 years ago civilized or primitive? And David Graeber (an anarchist, fwiw) makes a strong case that people have always organized themselves in all sorts of ways, which makes me wary of arguments that one social arrangement is any more "natural" than another. That said, as a civilized person I love your nature videos!
Good points! Clearly i'm not an expert on the subject (nor do I intend to be) or an anthropologist, however what's also interesting is not all groups have built civilizations. Look at the uncontacted tribes for example. Anyway, it's interesting. Something to look into further in the future
FIRST LETS GO
Wanna cookie? Jk jk 😂😂😂
new pfp?
Beautiful wilderness, the perfect place to talk about anarchy
ER, are you a member of an Anarchist organization?
you want to join?
@@lucek1977 I’d hope to be the leader one day
@@jordanenglish883 honestly, same. Wanna know eachother?
One of the interactions of all time
@@tibr wanna join us?
Well, it appears that the profile picture has been warped by some alternate reality now lol.
treba da uvedes palentu za veceru pred spavanje jer je dobra za sokove u stomaku.
Whenever I speak my mind about my own views regarding the civilization I find myself regularly crushed by, I'm typically met with the sort of responses you'd expect from a lizard born comfortably in a reptile house. "The way things are is better than they were." "We have more available to us now than ever." "There's no heat lamp in your anarchical ideal." I enjoy these anarchy focussed videos because they cement the idea in my noggin that, despite the loud majority's complancency with the world, there are more folks around interested in, and talking about, what I consider freedom. It's nice.
Yeah man, I definitely agree, it would be wayyyyy more tougher living outside since there's so much against us. But living outside is missing in our lives since people still go out and continue to hunt, they go camping. Not to mention, no one really likes to work, both kids and adults (since we are slaves for the people at the top) it shows that modern living is not fulfilling.
Also I don't know what the solution is, but I know this isn't working. Just look at indigenous people, alot of them are alcoholics and are in jail. They're empty and sad of a life that they have lost in this modern age
Yesss the anarchist videos are the best. I feel less alone in a world where no-one really talks or understands how crazy our society is. Or even how crazy human beings are haha
tisk tisk tisk -_- i know for a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FACT that the time in-between his last pfp change was NOT 1 MONTH plz do EXPLAIN!!!
I dont know why... But your current profile pic reminds me of a Pokémon...
Ya, The problem with your argument/suggesting is the same problem I have with Nihilism. I used to think the same as you and a sort of sudo nihilistic way very depressed the usual scenario for people that have this line of thinking, So the Issue with it as I've learnt and grow from when I was younger, Is all you are doing is deconstructing the current reality of the situation to its simplest form and then you take some sort of outlandish radical viewpoint Like "Society is cancer and we should return to nature" but when you think about that more than a second... how do you know? in fact, if you look at the facts and figures the quality of life that we live now, It far exceeds the quality of life we lived 1000 years ago, It is rather funny too that the types of people who talk like this use the same arguments that someone from the church would make, Both of your arguments follow the same tropes of "well you can't prove that god doesn't exist so you can't say I'm wrong then...." or "Imagine if there wasn't any society, I could just go out hunt for food, build my own home and not have to deal with tax's I would love that.... (how old are you?) oh Im 30 why do you ask? (ya so you wouldn't be loving it cuz you would be dead, and life expectancy back then is like below 30), This is literally the truest form of "you won't miss it until it's gone" or "you don't appreciate it while you see it", Well to rap up this I guess rant, Is what you should be focusing on is individuality and your own personal happiness because if you're happy then nothing else matters, You don't need to read a book, you do not need to be an anarchist and you don't need to hide under some sort of belief system to feel some sort of way. Its pointless negativity with no really form of gratification that you don't just have to generate for yourself anyway.
In your opinion.
@EphemeralRift Your right it is only my Opinion and I want to say im sorry if my earlier message came off as aggressive I definitely got quite "emotionally charged" while writing it, I respect you alot and your earlier videos on depression are one of the reasons I'm still here, Also I think you should have a lot of pride for making asmr and it being your source of income and I love your asmr video's.
The life expectancy didn't really work like that you would either very likely not be alive by the age of 20 or be alive by the age of 60. (The life expectancy was to a large degree caused by high child mortality). But even if we ignore most of your kids not making it (which is pretty bad thing I think we can agree on that) I would still say there is some tendency to romanticize the life stile of hunter gatherers too much. (Though if you compare them with something like medieval peasants instead of a life in 1st. world country that changes the equation a lot). I personally think the ideal life would be some life in nature but still with most of modern tech that relates to medicine. (Not doable with current population density.)
Especially love hearing you talk about anarcho-primitivism, I'm very much on the socialist into communism / anarchism perspective of things, where the government should be used as a protecter and enabler of autonomy (its really utopic, i get it 😂). I hope that after systematic enforcement of autonomy (like paying for healthcare, schooling), we can move to devolution (moving government faculties down to the responsibility of the community). But at the same time the world is too messed up to have some human consciousness shift garbage happen (climate, civil rights, lack of political representation even in "democratic" countries) so its hard not to get depressed. Also hearing to you talk about everything's "right to exist" another way to say that might be that "other things have dignity". Maybe a primitivist would help free me from any tightness regarding "the way I want things to go" for my utopia in my mind. Thanks for the vids as always ✌️
Can we get an outdoors lets eat
i think.. someone mentioned a picnic, so... ;)
Ted will appear here someday...
Uncle Ted?
Ted K! That's his name, lol. Of course NOW I remember. I plan to do a reading of his manifesto. Maybe that'll be next!
@@EphemeralRiftJust know that ted K isn’t an anarchist. Anprims critique the dude as well because of his eco-fascism. He is a interesting character and I do believe something like his case would’ve happened eventually even if he didn’t do it but he wasn’t an anarchist and he himself disliked anarchism.
I choose the city because I am disabled now and cannot do it in the rural areas I've come to know and love. Alas, I wish it could be different. The timeline we are in has been made to be the way it is, there's little we can do to change that, but much we can do to alter our reaction to the things that happen.
I'm an Imperialist, through and through. But these excerpts are quite interesting, and may give me pause to re-view my own ideas on how things should be.
You are an imperialist?! Meaning that, for you, the empire is the ultimate type of government and supposedly the one we should aim on achieving globally?
@@fradntknw The Empire I envision is the perfect union of state and people. It is the acceptance and empowerment of the chosen ideology of the nation. It takes cultures and places them into a catalyst, taking what offers enrichment, and destroying that which harms us or threatens to make us regress. The West has already taken elements of this idea, they're just too afraid to take it to its full conclusion.
So you just like to be on the wrong side of history and edgy, got it.
@@1997lordofdoom Not at all, I didn't come to my ideological choice just to be simply 'edgy.' I have my reasons.
Virus is better analogy than a cancer cell when speaking about parasites as no, cancer cells are not organisms. Cancer cells are just that, cells which are skipping apoptosis or programmed cellular death. And these cells are a part of the human organism. But I also think cancer is an excellent analogy if you take it in a different direction: humans are not willing to embrace the living system they are a part of and are clutching on to life, not willing to let go, wanting to live forever and exercise our control.
virus, cancer, either works ;)
hello
second hello rift 👋
Fell off
*Falling up. Fixed it for you. And you're welcome.
be careful calling that rucksack a 'backpack' i heard theyre banned
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First like lets Go 😅🎉😂🤣
You probably liked it yourself lol
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@@MDJ00013 Ok
No clue If you will see this comment, but what are your thoughts on Ted Kaczynski? Or the anarcho-primitivist movement?
These nature videoes are getting old tbh
Then go watch some Diddy and R Kelly music videos.
IMO it's calm and relaxing coz I live in chaotic city and there's no nature
no they aren’t
Womp womp
OP really whining and complaining. LOL fucking hilarious.
You do you Paul but... If you think that's "deep" it's not, it's as shallow as an edgy teenager's views on society and anarchy. Rejection of civilization and Anarc 10:53 hy are subjects that literally take years to study. And... That's not ASMR, that's "Paul's propaganda for toddlers" and if that's what you wanted to do, great, it's ok. It's just not the ASMR content most of us came here for, at least not what I came here for. I'm out, peace.
Yapper over here
Bye bro 😂
bye felicia
This is so true😂
Yeah, you're right, having the coat of arms of Romania as a profile picture is much much deeper than breaking the status quo of the dysfunctional society we are in; nationalism for toddlers, to use an expression you are familiar with.