In the first draft of my first ever book (which may actually get published someday if I ever figure out how to do that - its very different than actually writing - this publishing thing - so I've learned) part of my argument against civilization comes from a particular establishmentarian tactic for how free-range feral culture gets caught, processed, and metabolised by the State and it's minions and then broken-in to serve as mules for capitalist entreprenuerial enterprize and by the establishment as a whole. An act of core exploitation that legions of people are more than willing to take advantage of. It has its founding in the process of domestication. Hell, its one of the founding premises behind the American dream. Read that last sentence again very carefully.

I refer to this core tactic as 'culture capture' and it is one of the most insideous and difficult to suss-out contributing factors in the destruction of native human potential. As a tactic its is rarely appreciated for the devestation it causes. And it is one of the root causes, if not THE principle cause for the destruction of liberty. And far from being perceived as negative or destructive, when it is seen clearly at all, it is considered to be fundamentally beneficial to progress™, capitalism™, production™, entertainment™ and even popular education - and then becomes canned and labelled and crammed back into us as culture™ and insinuated into every other facet of civilization™. Most everyone on this planet, especially in western civilization, activily participates in it in any of a thousand ways, and quite a few activily pursue it as a means towards garnering advantage in this society in which we half-live.

And my absolute-fundamental-core-root point here is this:

Culture capture is a massive tenticle stemming from the same destructive internal impulses, violence, and death urges that have long been the modus of this civilization. The cummulitive effect of this particular tactic, played-out and perpetrated dozens of times a day by hundreds of millions of captive civilians - as it is made manifest onto the flesh and blood of the living world - is significantly contributing to the slavery of the human and non-human condition, and to the destruction of our lands and seas and air - this our natural Earth - the body on which we are intimately dependant on and part of in ALL WAYS. So if you want for your freedom and liberty and native connection to nature reastablished - KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY!

I'll offer up a brief text which I often send out as an attachement with emails to my capoeira friends and allies to shed a weensy bit more light on what I'm getting at with this, if you want more you should kick me in the ass and tell me to get my book published - I need the incentive, AND the support:


"We should avoid this modern path of institutionalizing our capoeira, breaking it in, domesticating it, then yoking it to a cart to do our bidding; this is the path of power, control & authoritarian hierarchy, not the path to freedom - it is exactly what the art was created to fight against. Capoeira has grown for sure - fattened like a GMO for the marketplace - but is now a vestige of its former existance as a path to self-realization & liberation.

It should run wild like ponies on the plains, cats in back allies & hedges, coyotes; moving from city to country with ease, like dandelions coming up through cracks in the sidewalk - instead of like dogs protecting a fence, circus bears doing tricks for the crowd, or finely sowed crops. Teaching capoeira should not be a job, nor a vocation - it must be an insurrection: a (r)evolutionary act of creating paths towards living in a new world under the noses of those who would shackle us all to their bidding & ambitions for power - to make us act like them."

(>(>(>Perere<)<)<)