The Feralist Manifesto
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Every crisis traces to one cause
Artificiality
Artificiality is the sum of all systems disconnecting humans from natural law: civilization's structures, technological mediation, domesticated lifestyles, industrial food systems, abstract economics, and the entire apparatus separating us from direct experience of life.
This trajectory began at the dawn of human history—long before civilization, before agriculture—when our species was determined to control rather than integrate with natural forces. What we face today isn't the result of corrupt politicians, greedy corporations, failed ideologies, or poor policy choices. It's not about capitalism versus socialism, democracy versus authoritarianism, or any political system at all. These are surface manifestations of something far deeper—the ineluctable outcome of a pattern set in motion from the very beginning.
Fire domestication was the first divergence. Not a mistake. Not the fault of our ancestors. An inevitability. Fire led to cooking. Cooking enabled agriculture. Agriculture required settlement. Settlement built civilization. Civilization demanded industrial technology. Each intervention created dependency. Each tool of control necessitated the next. No individual decision, no historical event, no political movement could have altered this course.
The mass extinctions, soil death, poisoned water, chronic disease epidemics, surveillance states, and destroyed communities aren't accidents. They're the system functioning exactly as it was always determined to function—the inevitable endpoints of organizing human life around artificial systems rather than natural law. Reform cannot fix this. Better leadership cannot fix this. The problem isn't implementation; it's the foundation itself.
There is no one to blame. This isn't divine punishment for humanity's sins. This isn't God testing us or the devil's corruption. These religious narratives are complete fabrications—comforting stories that prevent understanding the material reality. There is no supernatural force orchestrating this. There is no spiritual lesson to learn. There is no cosmic justice being served. Believing that prayer, repentance, or faith will solve ecological collapse is delusional. Religious explanations deflect from the actual pattern: a determined biological trajectory meeting artificial systems, producing inevitable catastrophe.
Even those who appear to cause harm—the corrupt politicians, the greedy executives, the exploiters—are following the same determined biological programming: pursuing survival, advantage, and self-interest. In natural contexts, these drives are constrained by tribal bonds and immediate reciprocity. But artificial systems removed these natural constraints and rewarded their most pathological expressions. Over tens of thousands of years, this artificial selection turned naturally balanced traits into catastrophic extremes. The problem isn't human nature. The problem is that Artificiality created the context where natural programming produces pathological outcomes.
No villains. No evil masterminds. No divine plan. The trajectory was determined before anyone was born.
Our ancestors couldn't have known where this path led. But we do. We're living in the terminal phase—and we're the first generation determined to understand it.
The Feral Response
Understanding determines rewilding—not backward, but forward
What 'Feral' Means
Feral describes a once-domesticated animal that has returned to wildness. Not a return to an original primitive state, but the condition of having passed through domestication and emerged on the other side.
We can't unknow what we've learned or undo human history. But once we see the full pattern, from fire to collapse, reconnection with our nature becomes inevitable. Understanding itself compels the response.
Feralism is the feral path. Neither primitivist fantasy nor technological escapism. It's conscious transformation guided by natural law, informed by tens of thousands of years living under artificial systems.
Shared Diagnosis, Divergent Paths
Multiple movements recognize the crisis. Each proposes a different way forward.
Transhumanism
Diagnosis: Humanity suffers, trapped and limited
Approach: Transcend biology through technology
Difference: Sees humanity as unfinished; more Artifice
Reformism
Diagnosis: Current systems aren't working
Approach: Change laws, policies, and systems
Difference: Tries to fix a system dysfunctional by essence
Anti-Technology
Diagnosis: Industrial technology destroys freedom
Approach: Destroy industrial system
Difference: Focuses on recent industrial era only
Anarcho-Primitivism
Diagnosis: Civilization alienates from nature
Approach: Theoretical anarchist return to past
Difference: Doesn't trace to the root cause
Feralism
Diagnosis: Fire domestication as root cause—only movement identifying the actual origin point where humanity's trajectory was determined
Approach: Building complete material infrastructure now. Organized coordination for transition at scale
Difference: Acts in material reality. Understands why all reform fails. Builds the actual exit infrastructure. Pragmatic about what transformation requires