FeralCulture: The portal for the emerging culture of sustainability

FeralCulture is another construct to describe a way of life that has been practiced for the vast majority of human history. The term uses "feral" to describe a transitional place between domestication and civilization and a wild, or Leaver, culture. We cannot simply jump back into being wild "humans." First we must become feral.

FeralCulture could be thought of as a Return to the Old Ways, and Ancestral Remembrance. For with the desire to be feral, comes not only the responsibility to remember your ancestors, but also to value what they did. Their way of life allowed us to thrive on this planet, so that we could be here now. So much of our modern culture despises its ancestors, or remembers them only back to a recent date, such as the beginning of civilization.

FeralCulture isn't about returning the remote wilderness and living a life of primitive ease in the forest. That would be nice. Consider that a goal, an ideal, a retreat, a way to learn about how to live in the realities of the Anthropocene.

The reality is we have to figure out how to live with the inputs of the Anthropocene. It's going to be the Feral Age, or no Age at all.

FeralCulture also describes a recripicol relationship with the natural world as human members of the ecological community. Tending the Wild. FeralCulture implies that same relationship but also mandates changing yourself. You, too are part of the wild that is tended, rewild yourself.