Category: Philosophy of Rewilding
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Rewilding 101: “Prehistoric” Skills & Ideas for a More Resilient Future
I’m excited to teach a course called “Rewilding 101” through the Portland Underground Graduate School this coming month (November 2015). Check out the course details below: Class: SUNDAYS November 1, 8, 15 and 22, 10:30am-noon. Space limited to 15 students. The concept of rewilding, of un-doing the domestication of the last several thousand years, is…
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Rewilding, Dispatched
Rewilding has been picked up by the mainstream and watered down. Peter Michael Bauer gives his assessment of the situation.
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Calling the Cops vs. Rewilding
A while back an anonymous person mailed me a giant rock with an insulting remark attached to it. I interpreted it as a form of intimidation and I called the police. They sped over to my house, took finger prints off the rock, crime scene photos, interviewed all of my neighbors and roommates, interrogated the…
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Aliens Vs. Rewilding
I’ve had a couple people ask me lately if I “believe in aliens”.
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“Community” vs Rewilding
“How can we (rewild-minded folks) live INSIDE the system now, and in satisfying numbers, and create the community we need to, if not live outside the system for legit fear of getting murdered en masse, offer support to one another on a day-to-day level?”
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On Killing Animals, Insects & Plants
In the past couple of weeks I killed my first mammals.
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Addiction vs. Rewilding
Okay, so I’ll admit it. I have an addiction to certain aspects of civilization.
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Hypocrisy vs. Rewilding
Inevitably those-who-rewild will find themselves attacked as hypocrites by those who don’t understand rewilding: “If you hate civilization so much, why don’t you go live in the woods?”
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Colonization Vs. Rewilding
The mentality of colonization runs deep in our culture, particularly deep in those who benefit the most from the colonization.
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Fundamentalism vs. Rewilding
Someone asked me if I would exclude a christian from a rewild camp? No. Why would I? Rewilding refers to a process, and that process can start anywhere.
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Hate Culture vs. Rewilding
A few weeks back I went to a anarchist curated fundraiser for an anti-civilization film. In lieu of my recent “fan mail” and the overall attacks I get from green anarchists, I’m very apprehensive about going to these kinds of events, but I wanted to show my support for the film and meet the filmmaker.…
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Doom and Gloom Vs. Rewilding
Whenever I get to talking about how fucked up this culture is and how much it is fucking up the planet, someone inevitably writes me off as just preaching doom and gloom without “realistic” solutions. Generally what they actually mean is solutions [sic] that will prevent them from having to fundamentally change the way they…