I am a 30 year old male living in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. I live and work at Zendik Farm. Zendik is a movement of artists and our main activism is social and philosophic. Our contention is that human beings need to find a way to learn how to become honest with each other and befriend each other. We work to become conscious of our attitudes and belief systems, and strive to become stronger and more sincere individuals. Throughout the years, we have had made many mistakes and have had many successes. One thing I can say is that cooperating and trusting others is hard fucking work. Seeing how hard it is, I also see its value in actually making a real change in the culture. That is why I have dedicated myself to the Zendik Movement. I think this work is crucial work that needs to be done for the culture to change.
I believe it is a humanist philosophy that is killing the planet. It is the belief that this planet is only here for us and we can do whatever the fuck we want with it. In recent years I have begun to understand more in depth the incredible destruction industrial civilization is wreaking on the planet, stemming from this humanist philosophy. Not only do I believe this culture is currently committing diabolical acts against the planet, I believe this culture is so destructive it will eventually collapse and take much innocent life with it. This destruction has to stop. This has made me understand the crucial work of frontline activism, and has blossomed inside of me a new vision, where all who give a fuck about this planet can finally unite. Every part of me knows this massive unification is crucial, and I have a lot of anxiety about how to help make this happen. There are people in all groups that I have either met or read about and found to be just incredible people that sincerely care: artists, philosophers, anarcho-primitivists, writers, anti-civers, christian activists, mountaintop removal activists, social activists, people that are not activists but I can see really give a fuck and don't know what the hell to do, people in the government, people in the military, radical feminist activists, animal rights activists, 9-11 truthers, etc. etc. I ask myself, "How the fuck do you unite all of these people?" Given the brutal conditioning we have all gone through, I feel I understand many different people's attitudes about life and about the possibility of change. It is my contention that it is this brutal conditioning that keeps us all divided. I hate that division, and I think it may be the job of a social movement like ours to unite so many different people to work toward this sane world we all want. I believe it's time I get to work.
That's my little dirge on my beliefs and what I want to accomplish in life. More personally, I enjoy reading many different books. I enjoy traveling and talking to many different people about these concepts and philosophies. I recently found a great joy in exercise (unfortunately it's taken this long to get there, lol). I do lots of different random work on the farm where I live. I enjoy watching Submedia TV on the net for fun. My favorite author is Derrick Jensen. I don't watch much t.v. or movies at all. That's me in a nutshell!
Email: peiro@zendik.org
