When you all brought up the subject, I imagined something fairly different. I made this chart of my own philosophical journey, relative to rewilding. My journey has not been a linear one, nor does it represent a final condition. I wonder how other people would describe their philosophical journeys.
NO UNDERSTANDING OF RELATIONSHIPS
Selfish Ignorant Childhood (age 0-8)
Mormon Christianity (age 8-16)
American Bourgeois Consumerism (age 15-16)
Tom Brown Jr. Spiritualism (age 15-18)
-the earth exists for man
-life is a school exam from God
-obedience is rewarded in the afterlife
-no understanding whatsoever of nature or history
-guilt is the predominate theme of my life
-the point of life is to own a lot of stuff
-fake Darwinism
-guru patriarchs
-ideological dependence
-marginalization of experience
-no empathy
-inner life
-patriarchal monogamy
-hunter/gatherers are degenerate savages
UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS AS COMPLEX SYSTEMS
Scientific Atheism (age 17 to present, with amendments)
Experimental Archeology (age 17-present)
Critiques of Civilization (age 16-present)
Anthropological Egalitarianism/Green Anarchism (age 17-present, plus sense of humor)
Daniel Quinn Buddhism (age 17-present)
Paleo Diet/ Move Nat (still too poor)
Modern Psychology (age 20-25, this field has a long way to go)
Permacutlure (age 20-present, with amendments)
-trust in experience
-ideological independence
-skepticism
-understanding ecology
-understanding history
-understanding needs in relationships
-escape from the patriarchy of absurdity
-learning about actual ancient cultures
-animism as a psychologically healthy way to view the world
-all life is related
-lingering moralism and mechanistic world view
-philosophical polyamory, practical monogamy
NEED FOR RELATIONSHIPS TO BE RECIPROCAL
Derick Jensen Moralism/DGR (age 19-24)
Finisia Medrano Moralism (age 23)
-resurgence of moralism
-great empathy
-unflinching look at history
-willing to carry out radical action
-feminism from the man Jensen
-masculinism from the former man Medrano
-hypocrisy
-victim culture
-emotionally derived imperatives
-the perception of evil
-resurgence of guilt
-'save the world’
-‘planting back’
-paralysis
-attempted polyamory
UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS ARE ULTIMATELY WITH MYSELF
Alan Watts Zen (age 24-present)
Nietzsche Post Moralism (age 26-presen, with deletions)
Guy McPherson Zen (age 25-present, with skepticism)
Chamberlain Evolution as an Anti-Narrative (since I made this shit up myself, I probably wouldn’t confess ever outgrowing it)
-an understanding and love of irony
-understanding innocence
-understanding unity
-shedding of moralism and the mechanistic world view
-moralism as domestication
-comfort with life’s ambiguity
-comfort with my own “dark side"
-comfort with my own “masculinity"
-comfort finding my own meaning
-abandonment of the ‘save the world’ mentally