I never had friends in the army or police force, but during my compulsory army service I did gain plenty of exposure to the reptilian brain of paid army personnel. I know a thing or two about boys with toys, especially the ones who like to make a career out of their gun fetish. Occasionally … Continue reading America’s Nazi Dumbass Problem: The Bovino Effect

Thousands of years ago humans supercharged their journey towards collapse by unconditionally embracing the most disruptive, extractive, and self-annihilating technologies. Although the agricultural, industrial, and information revolutions are traditionally discussed as discrete epochs, they are in fact part of a single exponential progression: an accelerating mathematical equation that aimed to increase scalability when it came to … Continue reading The Growth Dogma: How Humans Resigned Themselves to Acceleration

Hi…where’s our next raid? I’m bored! Dictators never act alone, because they simply can’t. An autocracy is always a group effort, much like a pack of wolves: the leader of the pack is only the spark, the trigger. The real effort is invested not by the dictator themselves but by the thousands, millions who have chosen to … Continue reading Nation of Carolines: How to Be a Fascist Bimbo

People who suffer from addiction are sometimes mistakenly seen as the most mentally unbalanced members of society. But while they may be highly self-destructive, they are rarely of any threat to other people. Many of them are in fact functional, productive individuals who often manage to joggle their addiction with holding down a job and … Continue reading Inside the Brain of a Dictator: Why Trump Will Ultimately Use the Nuclear Codes

When I was between the ages of five and ten, my father frequently took me to visit my aunts that lived back in the village where he had been raised. It was a small town tucked away in the leafy mountains of north central Greece, a world apart from the hot, dusty, tourist cities of … Continue reading Indestructible

When you’re in a relationship that seems to be hitting the skids faster than you can say “divorce”, it is tempting to romanticize about what could have been, should have been, all the things that went wrong which could have been avoided, and how both of you could have handled situations differently. You maintain an … Continue reading Detoxing from the Hope Porn: Why Collapse Realism Is the New Activism

I must have been 8 years old when my father and I kneeled on the dirt and tore open a small, clear plastic bag with a cheap, generic drawing of a white rose printed on it. Inside, there was a dried-up brown/black wooden stick, slightly longer than a pencil. “This is a rose” he said, … Continue reading Why Roses Have Thorns