In defense of eco-terrorism

[hunter]

4. I go months without visiting a "Big Box" store.

My car was built in the 'mid eighties and has a salvage title. My computers and cell phone were trash. I don't watch cable, satellite, or broadcast television. My computer's operating system is Linux. The only thing I'm really comfortable buying is simple foods and beer. Maybe new clothing, and books, sometimes. Most everything else I make from cast-offs.

The last thing I ever want to be is a "consumer."

If everyone lived like me this civilization would collapse. It will collapse anyways, so I don't feel too bad about that.

I'd like to see a world-wide communication infrastructure survive, medical knowledge survive (especially modern birth control methods!), a robust education system survive, enough food to support everyone, but much beyond that everything else can rot or be recycled. Throw away the cars and the wars and the airlines and the power grids and the oil pipelines, kick back, have a beer, smoke a joint, tell a story...

Want to see the world? Put on your boots, get on your mountain bike, strap on your electric legs, and just go. Sailing ships leaving ports to far-away places daily.

If we continue on the path we are going, this false "economic productivity," the world our kids' inherit will be a lot more savage than my utopia.