Running on emptiness the pathology of civilization the pathology of civilisation amazonde zerzan john fremdsprachige bucher. Running on emptiness book read 19 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers americas most famous anarchist. John zerzans book running on emptiness was my introduction to the anarcho primitivist mindset i admire the critique and personally find the return to the feral and primitive or philosophy of simple living behind anarcho primitivism absolutely enthralling but zerzan is far too extreme for my taste i personally find extremes to be lies which focus on one side of the coin and i simply . Running on emptiness the pathology of civilization by lucas m land january 19 2010 comments 3 i hinted recently that ive been immersed in a book by anarcho primitivist philosopher john zerzan after reading ishmael the story of b and my ishmael i wanted to explore these primtivist ideas further a frequent criticism of the primitivist anti civilization critique is that it holds