Civilization is also separation from an original wholeness and grace. The poor thing we call our “human nature” was not our first nature; it is a pathological condition. All the consolations and compensations and prosthetics of an ever more technicized and barren world do not make up for the emptiness. John Zerzan From its inception, civilization has been religious. Before the earliest civilizations, humans (and … Continue reading Religion, Power & Civilizations