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I live in the outrageously kooky city of Portland, Oregon, and one of its denizens' blogs crossed my digital path today. He's the Urban Scout, and his cause is "rewilding." To rewild is (according to the wiki I believe to be largely written by him) to undo domestication; to prepare for the eventual undoing of civilization. Scout isn't only suggesting you un-domesticate animals (send your housecats out to hunt mice instead of buying them Fancy Feast, for instance); no, he wants people to lose their domestication.

Rewilding could be as low-key as reading a book instead of watching TV (sounds civilized to me). But it can also include killing and eating a squirrel (maybe that one who's been storing his acorns in the little alcove next to my home office); or "refusing to pay rent or buy food" or even more anarchist, like " tearing up the streets with a sledge-hammer to plant crops" or "taking down civilization."

I'm the first proponent of taking a sledgehammer to the concrete in your backyard to plant a vegetable garden, or reading books and coloring instead of playing Halo 3 (though that last might build useful skills were civilization to fall). But some of the extremes supported by the rewilding folk -- stealing from the cash register at your "wage slave" job, for instance -- aren't on my list of best ways to fix Mother Earth.

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