** 1. Why This Pamphlet is being Written

*** The Primitivist Alignment

*** Unabomber Manifesto

*** Under Pressure

*** Spiral of Alienation And Decline

*** Move Forwards, or Die?

*** Sour grapes?

** 2. What is Primitivism?

*** Progress

*** Doublemindedness

*** Marginalised Malcontents

*** Picking the Scabs

*** Transcendence

*** Now You See It, Now You Don’t

*** Be Like Ted

*** Icon of Sacrifice

*** Substitute Religion

*** Consequences

** 3. The Preliminary Orientation: Moderning, Postmodernism and Primitivism

*** The labyrinthine basement beneath the New Age Cybercafe

*** Alienation

*** Crisis

*** Herbert Marcuse

*** One Dimensional Man

*** Machine, Technology, Problems

*** Millennium Showdown

*** Schadenfreude

*** Duty of Care

*** A Developed World Counsel of Despair

*** No Social Dimension

*** Strategy of Obscurity

*** The ‘So What’ Counter Move

*** The Straw Man Returns

*** Double Aspect

*** Ideology

*** No Air From An Alien Planet

*** Paradox

*** Bi-polarity

*** Ideology or Egology?

*** Ideological product placement

*** Modernism

*** Postmodernism

*** Primitivism

*** Raiding the Rat Maze

** 4. Zerzan, FC and Moore: Three Mandarin Primitivist Thinkers

*** Twilight of the Idols

**** John Zerzan

**** Defective Methodology

**** Derivative

**** Marcuse

**** Destructive

**** One Dimensional Zerzan

**** Hot Delicious — Cold Disgusting

*** Who is the real Zerzan?

**** On Technology

**** Against the Supposed Neutrality of Technology

**** On Literature

**** On Art

**** Speculative

**** Epimenides The Cretan Rides Again

**** On Language

**** Veil of Symbols

**** The Fifth Bulkhead

**** The Eternal Return

*** Unabomber

*** The Road to Good Intentions Leads to the Dustbin of History

**** Despair

**** Gloomy Despair

*** John Moore

**** Primitivist Spirituality

**** Defining Primitivism

**** Surrender To The Land

**** Blood and Soil?

**** Form or Content?

**** The Four Hypotheses of the Apocalypse

**** Moore’s Postmodernism

**** Disatisfaction

** 5. Ten Principal Themes or Features of Primitivism

*** 1. The rejection of civilization, industrialization and progress

**** The system as an Entity

**** Implicit Totalitarianism

**** Progress

**** All or Nothing?

*** 2. Anthropology, the ‘Primitive Affluence’ thesis

**** Stone Age Economics

**** Three Primal Streams

**** Against the Hobbesian Myth

**** ’Profoundest night of non-being’

**** Primitive Confusion

*** 3. Primitivist spirituality. Mythology, pan-psychism, and New Age beliefs

**** Taoism

**** Feral Fault-Line

**** Grandfather Rabbit

**** Mumbo Jumbo?

**** Primal Religions

**** Totem and Taboo

**** Nascent Cult

*** 4. The critique of mass society and ‘leftism’

**** Unabomber

**** Bob Black

**** Shibboleths

**** Patronage and Pastiche

**** Rivalry

*** 5. Zero Work

**** Fully Unemployed

**** Ludic

**** Indolence

**** Return to Croatan

**** Workplace Stress

**** Getting Stuck In....

**** Work is a Four Letter Word

**** Sack the Lunch-Outs

*** 6. Technology as an enmeshed system that enslaves

**** A Dictatorship of Test Tubes

**** Within The Net

**** Interconnected Whole

**** Dystopia

**** Four Legs Good — Two Bad ...

**** Selective Use of Evidence

**** Meeting The Challenge

*** 7. Hostility to Ideology, the denial that Primitivism is an Ideology

**** A Competitive Edge in the Market-Place of Ideas

**** An Open Door?

**** Ideological Conflict

**** More Dreary Ideology

**** Outflanking

**** Refusal of Ideology

**** Archimedian Point

**** Sign of Hope

*** 8. Primitivist hostility to Postmodernism

**** Floating, Shimmering Goal-Posts

**** Abolition of the Self

**** Shipwrecked Hulk

**** Ludic

**** Essentially, the Same Destination

**** Taking Po-mo One Stage Further

**** For Sale — One Dialectical Myth

**** Reason

**** Status of The Primitivist Individual

**** The Vultures Circle

**** Deep Ecology

**** Pseudo-Radicals

**** Kulturkampf

*** 9. Hostility to symbolization

**** Language Is All

**** I Can’t Get Started

**** Running on Emptiness

**** Consolation

**** Great Cartesian Anxiety

**** Postmodern Symptoms

**** Leap of Faith

**** Pan Psychism

**** Language merges into Style

**** Double-Coding

**** Reification

*** 10. Poetry and myth

**** Origins Fallacy

**** Genealogy of Error

**** Hardcore Versus Softcore

**** Attention to Content?

**** Paradigm Lost

**** Reclaim The Spiritual

**** Bewilderness

**** Effing the Ineffable

**** Flattening the Wall

**** Lovebite

**** Postmodern

**** Not My Project

** 6. Some Legitimate and Illegitimate Criticisms of Primitivism

*** Manichean

*** Nature Good — Technology Bad

*** False Accusations of Eco-Malthusianism

*** Green Apocalypse

*** Bad Faith

*** Black Flag

*** Malthusian Coercion

*** Class Dogma Asserted

*** Moore Mangled

*** Misrepresentation

*** Zerzan

*** Swamp Fever

*** Watson Contra Moore

*** Jumping Off The Ship of Theseus

*** Trashing The Raft

*** Eternal Problem

*** Jason McQuinn

*** The Primitivist Assault on Ethics

*** Ought

*** The Ego and Its Own

*** Why Would Anybody Want to Join?

*** Cheap Shots

*** Cant

*** Zerzan’s Use of Language To Criticise Language

*** John Zerzan on Language

*** Are You Saussure?

*** Humpty Dumpty

*** Ownership

*** Language as Active

*** Concealment

*** Language as a Net

*** Consciousness, Loss

*** Romanticism

*** The Darker Side of Romanticism: Spengler, Junger and Heidegger

*** Caution Needed

*** Industrialization

*** Crawling With Worms

*** Pessimism

*** Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss

*** Domestication

*** Decisionism

*** Coldness of Technology

*** Heidegger the Nazi Fuhrer — Rector

*** Surrender to the Vortex

*** Heidegger and Technology

*** Mastery

*** Blind Alleys

*** Enframing

*** Turning

*** Primalism

*** Verdict

*** Technology

*** Reactionary Modernism?

*** Excavating The Land Fill

*** Tomb Raiders of the Lost Art

*** They want the prestige of science without the effort...

*** Pit of Vipers

*** The Vagueness Objection

** 7. So What is to Be Done?

*** Primitivism as Displacement Strategy

*** Primitivist Responses to this Pamphlet

*** Croatan is an Undesirable Destination

*** Our Need for a Positive Direction

*** Tomorrow is Already Here

*** A Modest Proposal

*** Multi-Dimensional, Parallel Processing

*** Visibility