Primitive Permaculture: Interview with David Lauterwasser

Fight Like An Animal

Content provided by World Tree Center for Evolutionary Politics. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by World Tree Center for Evolutionary Politics or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

6M ago 2:12:11

MP3•Episode home

Arnold talks with David of Feun Foo Permaculture and Rewiliding and An Animist's Ramblings. An anarcho-primitivist, David has been making a case for expanding the cultures this political tendency uses as models for life outside civilization. Feun Foo is an experiment in adapting, to the modern context, practices of small-scale, forest-dwelling cultivation which have enabled a great diversity of societies—from highland Southeast Asia to the Amazon—to live in ecological equilibrium. An Animist's Ramblings is a blog which, among other things, advocates for taking political lessons from small-scale horticulturalists and delayed-return hunter-gatherers.
Primitivism has often faltered for its lack of clear answers to the question: “knowing what we know, how should we live?” David is helping to guide these politics into a more applied, experimental, and fluid manifestation. We speak of the multi-dimensional nature of domestication; the awe-inspiring visits of elephants to Feun Foo; the personality variation of chickens; the strange and varied diet one ends up adopting subsisting off the land; and the need for a unified sense of identity among those who have rejected the mechanistic worldview, regardless of precisely how that identity manifests politically.

87 episodes

#Science #Society #Natural Sciences #Internet #Evolution #Climate Change #Psychology #Extinction #Empathy #Rage #Revolution #Policy #Anthropology #Cognitive #Egalitarianism