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
Desperate to denounce their mortality, humans always found refuge in some of the most ludicrous supremacy hallucinations. The majority of these fantasies, which soon morphed into organised religions, usually concurred that humans had appeared suddenly, spontaneously, and independently from everything else, and that quite possibly they were not even originally from Earth - yet somehow … Continue reading How Christianity Committed the Ultimate Eco-Blasphemy
Thousands of years ago, when humans started creating the first breeding lines of plants and animals, they had no idea that by doing so they had begun a long process of gradual decimation of the genetic pool that was so critical to the survival of these life forms. By limiting DNA variation often down to … Continue reading Human Pets: A Brief History of Behavioural Eugenics
When I first started gardening, I made one of the most common beginner errors: mistakenly thinking that gardening was all about taking care of plants. It seemed like a perfectly logical assumption at the time, one which however would prove no less than catastrophic just a few months on, as I watched the plant death … Continue reading Conversations with the Afterlife: The Cursed Garden
Yet another way by which religion and the Unhappiness Machine exercised control was through the myth of human purpose: not only were we supreme beings, we also had a “divine purpose”. We were meant to excel in everything, using our incredible intelligence to patronisingly preside over the creation, protecting and destroying it at the same time. An … Continue reading The Myth of Human Purpose
When a society is hijacked by parasites, it is only a matter of time before it breaks down. The oligarchs are running the show and have turned governments from governing entities to machines of wealth transfer from the 99% to the 1%. As Americans move into their cars in their millions, and college graduates move in back … Continue reading How The World Ends
As Iceland becomes the 5th country to withdraw from the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, the annual music festival which is Europe’s biggest cultural event and one of the world’s most watched, news coverage fails to scratch below the surface on what this means beyond Eurovision, beyond TV, beyond even politics. What is happening to Europe’s biggest cultural … Continue reading The Dark Lesson of Eurovision 2026 No One Talks About
As AI begins to syphon all investment, energy and data it can get its circuits on, I can’t help but think that this was a natural progression for a self-destructive civilisation obsessed with growth. The success of any business today is determined by the same criteria as the success of a virus: by how fast it can … Continue reading When Profit Grows a Brain: The Diabolical Collision Between Necrocapitalism and AGI
Civilisations and ecosystems are virtually indistinguishable from each other at times of existential stress: the same laws of scarcity and competition which decimate an ecosystem’s food chain are behind the collapse of a human currency chain. In any interconnected system, whether this is a human society or an ecosystem, the weight of collapse bears down … Continue reading Transformation Through Collapse: The Parable of The Burning Forest
The world is becoming a dystopia of extreme income inequality as corrupt kleptocracies across the planet accumulate embezzled capital at an accelerated pace. Now that the richest 10% account for the majority of transactions, it looks like the rest of us are no longer of use to the system. The so-called “economy” and inflated stock … Continue reading Akinetomartyria: When You Realise That Society Was Always An Illusion
George Tsakraklides 