Transcript of Radio Essay originally appearing on The Final Straw.

To explain why I am against swivilization, I have to give you a history of the world in five minutes. If it’s ok with you, I’m probably gonna just hit the highlights. Stay with me.
For four million years humans were semi-nomadic and lived in tribes, like bees live in hives and wolves live in packs.They did not have a lot of possessions. People who migrate frequently do not want to lug 75 pairs of shoes. They did not have hierarchies.If a tribe developed a coercive authority, it already jumped the shark because compulsion degrades the social bonds of interdependence that make semi-nomadic hunter gathering successful so only failed hunter gathers would resort to hierarchy. Also we do not find caches of weapons like we always find everywhere hierarchy arises.
Humans were anarchists for four million years. And generally happy. Unhappy people don’t continue doing what makes them unhappy for four million years. Somebody would have said, “Hey lets not do this.” To abandon tribes would make as much sense as bees abandoning hives or wolves abandoning packs.
There came a group of idiots who settled in one place and grew crops, to control the future by controlling their food. They’d never starve again.They grew extra food.They grew extra food, but food availability determines population size,so by the time they harvested extra food it wasn’t extra anymore and their population grew. So they expanded the farm, regimented the natural world and turned it into resources.They took more land, planted more food, experienced population growth and took more land.You see where that’s going.
Colonization. It started right after we settled and grew crops.
Food surpluses needed management, so a social engineer with a big big brain took over. Stratification, Hierarchy, Topdown authority.Right after we settled and grew crops.
To keep people working, the social engineer with a big,big brain locked up the food. Hungry people keep working. So,the social engineer needed guards.Standing military, guards needed weapons,weapon smith specialization Right after we settled and grew.
When the fascist farm with it’s hierarchy, social engineer with a big,big brain and a standing military who locked up the food- and everyone else slaving away in the fields under threat of starvation-expanded into areas occupied by tribal people, the social engineer with a big, big brain said “We are civilized and you’re savages, get the hell out of the way.”
Genocide.Right after we settled and grew crops.Survivors became slaves in the field.More food equals more people and equals a need for more land to grow more food,You see where that is going.

These idiots didn’t solve starvation as they intended; they created an engine for runaway population growth.They weren’t civilized, they were swivelized- they set out to do one thing and got all spun backwards.
After they conquered several tribes they had to develop a universal system for maintaining order. Laws Courts Punishments: Right after we settled and grew crops.Became swivelized.
All the components but one were in place and swivelization kept expanding, colonizing, exterminating, forcibly assimilating everyone in it’s path, obliterating every tribal culture it encountered .After just one generation of the social engineer with the big,big brain who developed this slave plantation dystopia put the last component for swivelzation in a place where he declared: “it has always been this way” And that lie still gets told today when college courses teach you nothing happened until about six to eight thousand years ago, because your swivilized historians share the same delusion as that social engineer with the big,big brain.
Swivelization is distinguished by war and genocide, overpopulation, soil erosion, poverty, economic disparity, authoritarianism, political instability,mass migration, famine,depletion of drinkable, mass destruction of eco-systems, polution, toxification, crime, jails, prisons,proliferation of social deviance, rape culture, predation of children, school shootings, depression, mental illness, property crime, alcoholism,drug abuse, famine, plagues, ghettoes, polgroms, recessions , human rights atrocities, weapons of mass destruction, ozone depletion, global warming, unemployment, suicide, mass extinctions, bankers terrorism,Ponzi schemes, road rage, taxes, dictators, racism,homophobia,homelessness,inflation, and the NSA reading your e-mails
In 1492 the known world got so crowded a group of ass clowns risked falling off the planet and came to a land where they found tribal people and said WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? Before this discovery could make them question the lie passed down from the social engineer with the big,big brain(that it has always been this way)Columbus killed everybody and made kidnapped Africans build a McDonalds on the burial site, then killed them too.
Swivelization is so intolerable we’re all on Prozac or are kids are on Ritalin, we self medicate with pot just to survive the day and still every once in a while someone snaps and shoots a school full of kids.So when a prisoner with a phone and a 165iq abandon mass production, of food live in  yurts and hunt the buffalo like Dances with Wolves, some glassy eyed apologist for swivelization with PSTD living in a van down by the river says “ What?And give up all of this?