I know a couple “anprims” (they’d call themselves anti-civ but everyone else calls them anprims) who genuinely went and fucked off into the woods. I think one’s working on supplying her own HRT through mare piss.

Not an anprim, but the argument made there is generally that disease wasn’t a severe issue prior to the advent of fixed settlement; it simply didn’t spread like it does today back when people were migratory hunter-gatherers and such.

There’s flaws in that argument, such as young people still being very susceptible, or the point that hunter-gatherers at times were sedentary e.g. in wetlands where there was always enough to hunt and gather year-round. But I thought I’d just offer the context as to their actual point.

Anti-civ generally prefer that, whilst True Anprims generally want to be actual hunter-gatherers to make the distinction.

The main issue as of now is that all the instances respect copyright, meaning that the good music is limited to Creative Commons. Which there is some good shit there, but not a ton.

Does that… mean anything? Isn’t that a vast minority?

Not generally, no. Usually they consider it to be the “original sin” of technologies so to speak, the start of sedentary lifestyle and thus (in their eyes) the beginning of the accumulation of capital. There’s debate on whether either of those things are true, but the prior likely isn’t due to (as I cited elsewhere) sedentary hunter-gatherer lifestyles in wetlands. The latter has some more truth to it, but there’s still plenty debate to be had.

Anti-civs vary more on agriculture, with most advocating a form of permaculture.

That’s the short of it basically.

You have a point actually, didn’t really think it through. I was just basing my stances off of reddit arguments I’d seen with anprims.

I heard about the wetlands thing in Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States though I never finished the book because my Kindle broke.

It’s just a toxic place where people literally exchange death threats and shit nonstop. I used to be one of the most active users, mods kept being shitheads and gaslighting eachother until everyone left. Most of the users are literally alts of like 4 people.