These are dark and darkening times, challenging us to look deeper to grasp the roots and dynamics of the looming civilisational crisis. Chronic illness of the planet calls for radically new thinking if there is to be any hope of renewal. Social existence, now strangely isolated, is beset by mass shootings, rising suicide rates, slipping longevity, loneliness, anxiety, and the maddening stream of lies and concocted politics. Zerzan trains his passionate focus on several fields of discourse: anthropology, history, philosophy, technology, psychology, and the spiritual. Points of light that become a kaleidoscope refracting new insights and contributing an overall picture of late civilisation.