The thing about anarchoprimitivism is kind of that it's a reasonably good
idea as long as everyone else agrees to ALSO be anarchoprimitivists, and
also can come to an agreement about what they're going to do when the free
rider problem crops up, and also there isn't an immediate resource crisis?
Which I am not saying is completely impossible in all of human nature ever,
but that's kiiiiiind of not what they're dealing with here.
I think I like your brother's thinking.
And HAH, I was thinking the same thing about rap! And am glad someone else
was, because I immediately got very nervous about "oh shit is this cultural
appropriation??? but it makes sense???" But it does! Like, it's a genre
with vast popular penetration and low start-up costs in terms of equipment,
designed to be insanely catchy, and you could get a really good oral
tradition out of that. And I wish I could write any form of lyric or poetry
at all, because, holy shit, warboy memorial rap, that is the
greatest thing of all time, and an amazing parallel to Furiosa's reciting
her descent and initiation. (Because if the entire culture revolves around
glorious witness, then of COURSE you're going to have a memorial tradition,
and it has to be something everyone can learn by heart, because there's a
big obvious problem with just having one or two guys as the keepers of
memory. And I just really love the idea that if this culture survives, a
couple hundred years down the road some local equivalent of Francis James
Child is going to be collecting a dozen versions of something that scans
vaguely to the tune of "Jesus Walks.")
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The thing about anarchoprimitivism is kind of that it's a reasonably good idea as long as everyone else agrees to ALSO be anarchoprimitivists, and also can come to an agreement about what they're going to do when the free rider problem crops up, and also there isn't an immediate resource crisis? Which I am not saying is completely impossible in all of human nature ever, but that's kiiiiiind of not what they're dealing with here.
I think I like your brother's thinking.
And HAH, I was thinking the same thing about rap! And am glad someone else was, because I immediately got very nervous about "oh shit is this cultural appropriation??? but it makes sense???" But it does! Like, it's a genre with vast popular penetration and low start-up costs in terms of equipment, designed to be insanely catchy, and you could get a really good oral tradition out of that. And I wish I could write any form of lyric or poetry at all, because, holy shit, warboy memorial rap, that is the greatest thing of all time, and an amazing parallel to Furiosa's reciting her descent and initiation. (Because if the entire culture revolves around glorious witness, then of COURSE you're going to have a memorial tradition, and it has to be something everyone can learn by heart, because there's a big obvious problem with just having one or two guys as the keepers of memory. And I just really love the idea that if this culture survives, a couple hundred years down the road some local equivalent of Francis James Child is going to be collecting a dozen versions of something that scans vaguely to the tune of "Jesus Walks.")