End-Stage Necrocapitalism: Fumbling Towards The Exit

Societies were formed not to evolve, but to obey, and what we tend to affectionately call “social evolution” was merely the aftermath of succumbing, and then adapting to, ever changing forms of oppression. Much like farm animals on growth hormones, humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a technofeudalistic society, never for a minute raising their heads to notice that they, in fact, are inhabitants of an enclosure: and that there is an actual door somewhere, a secret exit to a place where the farm owners have zero jurisdiction, where people are equal, and parasitic psychopaths are unable to assert their tyranny.

But the farm’s hormones, antibiotics and sedatives are always too strong to overcome. After all, this is what they are there for: to make sure you never want to leave. As we convince ourselves that it makes sense to stay, society does its own part: deifying the oligarchs, presenting them as providers, economic stimulators and innovators, rather than parasites in search of their next food source. The hallucinogenic effects of capitalism’s Unhappiness Machine are becoming stronger, just as Gen Alpha struggles to learn how to read, and think. At least this new generation of sheep is ruthlessly disobedient.

Like a rapidly aging pensioner, the world in 2025 bears little resemblance to what it was in 2020, and is already a zombie version of what it was in the decades before. With global debt surpassing 300 trillion and food and shelter becoming permanently unaffordable worldwide, we are well within the beginning of the end of industrial civilisation. It can only get worse from here as the main culprits, the climate crisis and ecological apocalypse, intensify exponentially. Try to explain “exponentially” to a Gen Alpha, when they cannot even add 2 and 4 without a calculator, spell the word “exponential”, or use a pen to write it down. As the world goes through a forced degrowth, the human mind is undergoing what teachers aptly describe as “brain rot”.

We all knew that global economic collapse was inevitable, and unavoidable, but it was also very much needed. As capitalism desperately tries to hang in there, tooth and nail, it becomes orders of magnitude more aggressive and abusive. It begins to show its true face, even to us living in the West. Could this be the farm lesson we all needed? And is it enough to make one start to think that maybe, just maybe, somewhere in this place there is a cleverly hidden exit? The folklore has been passed down from generation to generation: there are stories of a forbidden place over the mountains and outside of capitalism where no one is allowed to go, a place similar to hell where only the brave and stupid dare to venture, none of whom have ever managed to return. But perhaps they didn’t want to, because it turned out this hell was actually a paradise. As we all consume the scary fairy tale, one thing becomes certain: the vast majority of us are ready to be consumed by the sausage filling machine of the farm.

If there was ever any evidence that concentrated power will always seek to exploit, it is the fact that people have been in conflict with their leaders since the formation of organised societies. Despite this, only rarely do farm-bred humans revolt. If the international kleptocracy in charge of this economy knew they could be held accountable, they wouldn’t be this ruthless. They do what they do because they expect their actions to be tolerated. Our culture venerates unscrupulous serial entrepreneurs who are nothing but serial parasites: moving from one bankruptcy to the next just as they leave a trail of victims behind. The only way to get rid of parasites is to starve them. We can make this economic downturn the beginning of their end by collectively boycotting consumption, before they use it as yet another excuse for their next parasitic venture. Hint: they are already doing this, as we speak.

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