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The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 11: Finale"The eternity I detect in Nature I predicate of myself also. How many springs I have had this same experience! I am encouraged, for I recognize this steady persistency and recovery of Nature as a quality of myself." —Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1856 CABIN is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021. This is the final episode of CABIN. Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus cont...
2022-03-141h 09
The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 11: Finale"The eternity I detect in Nature I predicate of myself also. How many springs I have had this same experience! I am encouraged, for I recognize this steady persistency and recovery of Nature as a quality of myself."
—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1856
CABIN is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021.
This is the final episode of CABIN.
Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus cont...
2022-03-141h 09The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 10"In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. But alone in the distant woods or fields, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that cold and solitude are friends of mine. I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America, out of my head and be sane a part of every day." —Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1855 This is the penultimate episode of CABIN, which will conclude with Ep. 11. Cabin is a series from The Relentless Pi...
2022-01-2359 minThe Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 10"In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. But alone in the distant woods or fields, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that cold and solitude are friends of mine. I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America, out of my head and be sane a part of every day."
—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1855
This is the penultimate episode of CABIN, which will conclude with Ep. 11.
Cabin is a series from The Relentless Pi...
2022-01-2359 minThe Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 9"It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brain and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador any greater wildness than in some recess in Concord, i.e., than I import into it." —Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1856 Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio reco...
2022-01-181h 14The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 9"It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brain and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador any greater wildness than in some recess in Concord, i.e., than I import into it."
—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1856
Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio reco...
2022-01-181h 14The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 8"So I agree with the anarcho-primitivists that the advent of civilization was a great disaster and that the Industrial Revolution was an even greater one. I further agree that a revolution against modernity, and against civilization in general, is necessary. But you can’t build an effective revolutionary movement out of soft-headed dreamers, lazies, and charlatans. You have to have tough-minded, realistic, practical people, and people of that kind don’t need the anarcho-primitivists’ mushy utopian myth."—T. Kaczynski, "The Truth About Primitive Life: A Critique of Anarcho-Primitivism," 2008.Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one...
2021-12-311h 02The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 8"So I agree with the anarcho-primitivists that the advent of civilization was a great disaster and that the Industrial Revolution was an even greater one. I further agree that a revolution against modernity, and against civilization in general, is necessary. But you can’t build an effective revolutionary movement out of soft-headed dreamers, lazies, and charlatans. You have to have tough-minded, realistic, practical people, and people of that kind don’t need the anarcho-primitivists’ mushy utopian myth."
—T. Kaczynski, "The Truth About Primitive Life: A Critique of Anarcho-Primitivism," 2008.
Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11...
2021-12-311h 02
The Relentless PicnicUPDATE: The GoodsA brief update from Adam, Erikk, and Nick on three very important fronts.First, news on the upcoming conclusion to our CABIN series.Second, on relentlesspicnic.com/storeThird, on the continued existence of patreon.com/relentlesspicnic, the live shows we've been doing for our Patreon supporters, and the show we've got coming up on Monday, December 6th, 2021. Register here: crowdcast.io/e/digupthehatchetWe're not gone. And we're thankful for you.
2021-11-2415 min
The Relentless PicnicUPDATE: The GoodsA brief update from Adam, Erikk, and Nick on three very important fronts.
First, news on the upcoming conclusion to our CABIN series.
Second, on relentlesspicnic.com/store
Third, on the continued existence of patreon.com/relentlesspicnic, the live shows we've been doing for our Patreon supporters, and the show we've got coming up on Monday, December 6th, 2021. Register here: crowdcast.io/e/digupthehatchet
We're not gone. And we're thankful for you.
2021-11-2415 min
The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 7“‘Oh!’ say the technophiles, ‘Science is going to fix all that! We will conquer famine, eliminate psychological suffering, make everybody healthy and happy!’ Yeah, sure. The technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their understanding of social problems. Thus it will take a long and difficult period of trial and error for the technophiles to work the bugs out of their Brave New World (if they ever do). In the mean time there will be great suffering.”
—T. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future (1995).
Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple episodes. It's a story a...
2020-12-301h 13
The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 7“‘Oh!’ say the technophiles, ‘Science is going to fix all that! We will conquer famine, eliminate psychological suffering, make everybody healthy and happy!’ Yeah, sure. The technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their understanding of social problems. Thus it will take a long and difficult period of trial and error for the technophiles to work the bugs out of their Brave New World (if they ever do). In the mean time there will be great suffering.”—T. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future (1995).Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple...
2020-12-301h 14The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 6“It may be objected that primitive man is physically less secure than modern man, as is shown by his shorter life expectancy; hence modern man suffers from less, not more than the amount of insecurity that is normal for human beings. But psychological security does not closely correspond with physical security. It is true that primitive man is powerless against some of the things that threaten him; disease for example. But he can accept the risk of disease stoically. It is part of the nature of things, it is no one’s fault, unless it is the fault of some imag...
2020-10-311h 02The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 6“It may be objected that primitive man is physically less secure than modern man, as is shown by his shorter life expectancy; hence modern man suffers from less, not more than the amount of insecurity that is normal for human beings. But psychological security does not closely correspond with physical security. It is true that primitive man is powerless against some of the things that threaten him; disease for example. But he can accept the risk of disease stoically. It is part of the nature of things, it is no one’s fault, unless it is the fault of some imag...
2020-10-311h 02The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 5“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution ma...
2020-10-151h 10The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 5“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution ma...
2020-10-151h 10
The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 4“One writer says that Brown's peculiar monomania made him to be ‘dreaded by the Missourians as a supernatural being.’ Sure enough, a hero in the midst of us cowards is always so dreaded. He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. They talk as if it were impossible that a man could be ‘divinely appointed’ in these days to do any work whatever; as if vows and religion were out of date as connected with any man's daily work; as if the agent to abolish slavery could only be somebody a...
2020-10-011h 08
The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 4“One writer says that Brown's peculiar monomania made him to be ‘dreaded by the Missourians as a supernatural being.’ Sure enough, a hero in the midst of us cowards is always so dreaded. He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. They talk as if it were impossible that a man could be ‘divinely appointed’ in these days to do any work whatever; as if vows and religion were out of date as connected with any man's daily work; as if the agent to abolish slavery could only be somebody a...
2020-07-261h 08The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 3“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. . . . Some, not wise, go to the other side of the globe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, devote themselves to trade for ten or twenty years, in order that they may live—that is, keep comfortably warm—and die in New England at last.” —H.D. Thoreau, Walden, “Economy,” 1854.
Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple episodes. It's a story about...
2020-06-291h 16The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 2“I perceive that we partially die ourselves through sympathy at the death of each of our friends or near relatives. Each such experience is an assault on our vital force. It becomes a source of wonder that they who have lost many friends still live. After long watching around the sickbed of a friend, we, too, partially give up the ghost with him, and are the less to be identified with this state of things.” —H.D. Thoreau, Journal, 1859.
Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple episodes. It's a story about solitude and is...
2020-06-111h 08The Relentless PicnicCabin - Ep. 1Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019 and 2020.
New episodes weekly.
Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content.
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SOURCES (Ep. 1):
- The journals of Henry David Thoreau (1837-1861): bit.ly/36Lxavm ;
- Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by H.D. Thoreau (1854) ;
- Into the Wild (dir. Sean Penn, 2007; based on the 1996 book by Jon Kr...
2020-05-311h 03
The Relentless PicnicPATREON: The AnnouncementThere's a new channel for hot audio content from The Relentless Picnic. It's on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/relentlesspicnic
Our episodes will still be released for free, and in the same way as always. But, as a Patron, you'll receive weekly "treats" from us, delivered to you via the Patreon. Among the "treats" you might expect from us each week are:
▪️ interviews, conversations, and informal chats with intriguing guests
▪️ question & answer sessions where the Picnic responds to your queries
▪️ special live-streaming shows
▪️ excerpts from in-progress dramatic works/short operas
▪️ recipes from @georgelazenby's personal stash
▪️ plus: cut scenes, discourse, conversation, and curated audio deligh...
2017-11-2221 min
The Relentless PicnicCATJERKER: The OfferWe want you to hear our rollicking satire of venture capitalists, which involves lots of loose talk about cat masturbation. Here's how to hear it:
1) Leave us a rating/review on iTunes. Be real with us. We can take it.
2) Screengrab that ish.
3) Either a) e-mail that screenshotted review to relentlesspicnic@gmail.com, or b) DM that screenshotted review to @stanleypicnic on Twitter.
Then, we'll send you either a direct download link or an mp3 attachment, featuring the sketch we lovingly refer to as "The Cat Jerker".
Thanks for picnicking relentlessly.
2017-05-3108 min