We live in the last days of civilization. Take a look at how it all ends:
From the Anthropik Network:
How much longer can industrial civilization last before it undermines the basis of its existence, imploding due to growth and complexity spiraling out of control? Why is this collapse scenario nearly inevitable? These are the questions Yu Koyo Peya attempts to answer. The opening sequence presents a frightening taste of how a desperate world racked by hunger and the breakdown of “orderly society” might react to the cascading effects of Peak Oil on the economy in the near future.
The narrator’s fate is not predetermined, however; those of us who are bright and courageous and most of all willing will be able to survive the collapse of global civiliation, perhaps even bringing about the florescence of a new age of human culture: the Afterculture. Those of us intrepid enough to follow this path will do so with one eye on our primitive past and the other on finding creative solutions to building a thriving, organic human community in a post-civilizational world.
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Mixed reactions to this
Both options, collapse and anarcho-primitivism, seem to me horrible. As much as I hate our culture and economy I actually love technology. There is a difference between technological thinking and technology itself. They were too unclear in the film as to why exactly careful and speedy adoption of new energy sources could not happen. They said that our current economy is based on oil and therefore our economy can't move on. Well maybe our economy can't do it but a new economy can. An new way of relating to production is needed, not simply letting Capitalism run its full course in ruining our thought, our planet, and our welfare. Living in tribes is simply not the way I want to live. If the crisis does happen, which it most likely will, I'm not going to go back to the caves. But I guess it wouldn't matter what i want to do as I'll be dead.
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