Our powerful, charismatic brain is not designed for long-term planning and projecting. Its impressive capacity to solve problems is at its peak only when these problems are present right here, right now. From a survival point of view, the “right here right now” is much more important than 10 years from now, or even 10 … Continue reading The longest 10 minutes of your life have just begun
Our naturally dismissive attitude towards impending disasters is woven into the geological history of this planet. Our brain did not evolve in the midst of catastrophes, but during one of the most climatically stable and abundant times in Earth’s history. Resources were infinitely plentiful in relation to our consumption, and the climate remained stable enough … Continue reading A Brain from Another Time
Our brain has a dangerous affinity for stability: it desperately wants to believe in an unchanging world, even as the world changes. This make-believe stability evolved as a survival mechanism that was fundamental to our feelings of safety, allowing us to "keep calm and carry on" even as our world went through mayhem. Our brain … Continue reading Collapse Denial and the Trauma Response
It is both interesting and terrifying that the survival of this economic system has become more important than the survival of humanity. The necrosystem only cares about propagating itself, which it achieves by farming more humans and creating more consumer needs. Human society did not simply invent business. It has become a business all to … Continue reading The Age of the Farmed Consumatron
The evolution of our food production over time deserves a prominent place in the long list of technologies whose impact ranged from bad to worse to terrifying. Today's obesity epidemic is the direct result of the incredible changes which took place in our food industry over the course of just a few decades. Just as … Continue reading Frankenfoods of The Anthropocene
Our curiosity into ourselves has been running at a much slower pace than the one at which we have been merging with technology. Although technology is helping us discover ourselves, it also filters and distorts reality. There is less and less inquiry about how we, humans, are coping in a rapidly changing world. Without a … Continue reading Intergenerational Technological Trauma
Genuine forms of happiness have been exchanged for counterfeit versions originating in the world of machines: goods owned, GDP units earned, number of holidays left. Happiness is being measured in numbers and quantities instead of moments and feelings. Of all human generations who have lived before us, we are the least capable of answering the … Continue reading Happiness In the Machine Age
Had we been too quick to roll out the red carpet for technology? Had we passively accepted all the conveniences for the price of saying goodbye, forever, to essential parts of our biological being? Like a patient waking up in an operating theatre wondering whether all their parts are still in place, humanity found itself … Continue reading Welcome to Your Prosthetic Life
Human civilization is technically no longer run by humans but by profit and algorithms: entities which wholly lack ethics or a conscience. All biological life is rapidly losing value within this matrix, existing merely to serve the system. But even this role may be temporary: it is quite possible that this algorithmocracy-administered necrocapitalist entity soon … Continue reading All Lifeforms Are Worthless
In every pre-collapse dystopia there are three types of people: those who represent and curate it, those who have sided with it, and those who detest it. Parasites. Main driver: profit acceleration The first group needs no introduction. It represents the classic self-centred human, typically exemplified by the ruthless accelerationism of “destroy-now-pay-later” suicide economics of … Continue reading How to Survive a Pre-Collapse Dystopia: a Conceptual Segmentation
George Tsakraklides 