Kevin Tucker’s Primal Anarchy is up to the butcher table in Voice of Failure’s new “From Rebel to Liberal”, which critiques the deployment of Primal Anarchy by anarcho-primitivist’s former “primary proponent.”

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Introduction

… In a way, what follows is a sort of Mystery Science Theater-style critique. That is, I often let Tucker speak for himself and simply point out the thought you felt caught in your throat. I’m far less interested in developing any ideas here than I am in walking you through, hopefully with some chuckles, the menagerie of a moderately equipped thinker taking on a comprehensive encapsulation of all things.

Part 1

…Tucker spends some time on brain size, which is a real yawn since he only seeks to universalize even difference there. You have to understand that Tucker is an ideological egalitarian, everything must be of the same value. In his anthropology, he is searching for evenness. In his ecology he searches for similitude. For Tucker it will always be better to stretch the cognitive framework of value and utility across everything. Tucker hates uniqueness because he sees all difference as an offense to the equality which is in everything. Cultural materialism is comforting to him because it comprehends for him (through abstract objective measurements and base distortions) all the difference and equalizes it. This is essentially an enlightenment ideology, no matter the appearance of rebellion. It is the solidification of a primal essence that ultimately offends the primitive for taking its depth to be effable. Tucker couldn’t find solace in even wildness, needing to write a screed which clarifies and distills it….

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