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Buddhism

GliderGuider

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8. John Zerzan claims that language is our primary alienating invention

Reply to tama (Reply #7)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 07:07 AM

Feb 2013

http://www.primitivism.com/language.htm

I confess to having a fondness Zerzan, the foremost modern American anarchist philosopher. Sort of the Jack Sarfatti of the political sphere...

Language alienates, and stillness re-unites.

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