If we once — and for so long — lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that’s overtaking us ha… - John Zerzan

Urban reality is primarily about trade and commerce, with a nearly total dependence on support from external areas for continued existence. To guarantee such an artificial subsistence, city fathers turn inevitably to war, that chronic civilizational staple.

Culture has led us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.