A big part of the book is trying purposely is to disillusion people with this idea of global revolution and disillusion people with the idea that we can save the earth because we can't.
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Desert is a nihilist anarchist text first published in 2011.
It's one of the first books like that came out like timelinewise to take climate change is like yeah it's there's no saving it like there's no living in the 2000s there's no living in the 90s again.
So I was say like I I really I I've always not liked this book. Like I read it back in I think 2017 2018 when it was first sort of like coming back. Yeah. And I didn't like it then and I reread it this morning and I I like it even less now.
It has a few lines where it does specifically say civilization is the cause of I think it's like civilization is genocide.
The majority of people are never going to be what anarchists are right now, which is people who comprehensively reject the systems they live in.
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Robert Evans And that's that's an interesting look at it because I mean I definitely agree with the revolution is an ide… 4
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“And that's that's an interesting look at it because I mean I definitely agree with the revolution is an ide like is a myth thing like I I I specifically within the context of the United States which I believe that's what the book's trying to mostly focus on.”
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“And this is this is a problem because there's a there's a lot in here about that that that's about sort of like they're you know they're taking it's a sort of like soft anti-iv it has a few lines where it does specifically say civilization is the cause of I think it's like civilization is genocide.”
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“And I I I think that's [ __ ] I I think that's true. That's right. I don't I don't know what that line it's I think they're commenting in a specific type of anarchist literature which is like the make total destroy thing”
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“I I think it's worth acknowledging that like, yeah, the majority of people are never going to be what anarchists are right now, which is people who comprehensively reject the systems they live in.”
Andrew (surname unknown) Um today we'll be talking about the book the infamous uh pimic desert by anonymous. For those who are, you… 1
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“Um today we'll be talking about the book the infamous uh pimic desert by anonymous. For those who are, you know, not aware of this extremely controversial text, uh, Desert is a nihilist anarchist text first published in 2011”
Chris (surname unknown) So I was say like I I really I I've always not liked this book. Like I read it back in I think 2017 2018 wh… 1
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“So I was say like I I really I I've always not liked this book. Like I read it back in I think 2017 2018 when it was first sort of like coming back. Yeah. And I didn't like it then and I reread it this morning and I I like it even less now”
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“if I look back in books that have like impacted me it it's one of the first books like that came out like timelinewise to take climate change is like yeah it's there's no saving it like there's no living in the 2000s there's no living in the 90s again”
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“Um because yeah, a big a big part of the book is trying purposely is to disillusion people with this idea of global revolution and disillusion people with the idea that we can save the earth because we can't.”
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“So, I wanted to know um what you guys thought of the section of the book that speaks of the different modern different the the idea of fourth and fifth generation war.”
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“Read something. Uh doesn't have to be a desert, but just go read a thing. Go read a read the back of your shampoo bottle.”