The entirety of humanity has become one big business, and each of us is, willingly or not, part of this ever-growing, destructive, polluting, utterly pointless corporation. What is the point of working when there is hardly a job left on the planet which doesn’t guarantee the end of civilisation? The problem with jobs today is that they have stopped servicing society and have prioritised servicing the annihilation of climate and ecology. The primary goal of work today is not to provide a service, but to generate profit. This shift in priority has not only damaged services and job satisfaction. It has put the planet firmly on a path of destruction. No matter which industry we work in, we are all working on the same project, the biggest one we have ever worked on: Project Collapse.
Doctors are part of wasteful healthcare systems that exist at the mercy of chemical and pharmaceutical global corporations, having become direct outlets for plastic single-use products and overpriced drugs. But other than that, yes, they are saving lives. Farmers are largely nature destroyers: wasting water, depleting the soil microbiome, poisoning Earth with forever chemicals. But other than that, yes, they are feeding us. Office employees, of any and every type that exists, are the coordinators and administrative assistants to all this destruction: pushing paper, pushing money, pushing the marketing campaigns which push consumers towards consumption.
But rest assured: the destruction of this planet is supported by a well-educated, experienced and dedicated team here to assist you on every step of your final journey. Scientists research it and engineers design it. Lawyers endorse it and project managers organise it. Bankers and insurers finance it, and marketers announce it. Politicians normalize it, and religious leaders evangelize it. Teachers ignore it, and journalists censor it. Bosses delegate it, and employees tolerate it. These are just some of the most important bullshit professions.
The working zombies used to be humans. But capitalism treats humans in the same way it treats its most profitable, high-turnover products: cheap, replaceable, and rapidly expirable. Humans are the most exploited species on the planet: having surrendered their time, energy, physical and mental health to a system which only uses them as workhorses. But the rewards for the slaves to this system are not what they used to be, which explains why many young people are resigning before even entering the workforce. They know that this system is killing the planet they were planning to live in. They know that corporate culture and bullshit professions reinforce everything that is wrong with this species: ecocide, racism, corruption and a compulsion for self-destruction.
Most jobs are not work. They only exist to make bosses rich by forcing people to do things they don’t believe in, say things they don’t agree with, and devote their time to things they would never have been involved with in the first place, had they not been enslaved to this necrosystem destroying the planet. Imagine if employers saw employees as a sustainable investment, as opposed to a replaceable consumable. Imagine if they preferred to hire emotionally and ethically balanced humans, as opposed to workaholic narcissists. Narcissists are incredibly valuable to our economic necrosystem, which is why all corporate cultures tolerate, condone, promote and generously reward psychopathic master manipulators.
Work has become a means to self-destruction, nature is now irrelevant, and Project Collapse on track to hit its profit target before everything closes down, for good.
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How do you (yourself) act in opposition to necrocapitalism? Can you please share how it is you act in opposition of living the narrative of generating Financial Profit from —the death of our Living Planet ?
By exposing it. Thank you.
Thank you for continuing to share your gift with the world George.
How the human predicament is playing out in classrooms today is perhaps one of the most fascinating lenses through which we can contemplate our trajectory.
As a teacher, there is a silent, subtle, yet strictly enforced ‘mandate’ to ignore the true nature of our human predicament rather than a willful complicity or ignorance.
It’s useful perhaps to consider the education system as a sort of reproductive system within the superorganism, and the circular political nature of how it is designed ensures that this function cannot easily be disrupted or redefined.
From a purely human psychology perspective, examining the thoughts and beliefs that inhabit the current generation of students and projecting how they will mesh with the multitude of crises is both fascinating and terrifying!
I look forward to hearing you dive more into these topics in the future!
-Max
Thank you Max. And for your teacher perspective. This is all too disturbing..
As a teacher, I completely agree with this. It will only get worse as the system collapse becomes clearer.
Which pretty much sums up the backstory of a SF show called “Continuum.”