We have been inventing villains since the very beginning of our history. One of the most popular villain narratives in the environmental movement is that everything is the fault of the rich, because they control everything and emit the most. A statistic that is usually thrown about is that 100 or so corporations are responsible … Continue reading The Myth of “The Evil 1%”
Whether it was war, colonialism, slavery, or technology, this civilisation has learned to survive exclusively through unsustainable strategies of growth. But we cannot grow ourselves out of our problems anymore when the problem itself has become growth. What goes up must come down and growth has always led to collapse, as much as we prefer to … Continue reading Fearlessly Embracing the Contraction Taboo
The worst enemy of truth is half-truth. Decades of distraction and confusion through hyper-narcissistic consumatronic programming have made us so overloaded that we only pay attention to headlines, not the facts behind them. We have become much less curious and increasingly apathetic about what is happening around us. As our access to truth becomes monopolised … Continue reading Media In The Post-Reality World
Necrocapitalism manages to hide its dark agenda behind the most colourful, mesmerizing shopfront: an endless theme park of consumerism where our physical senses succumb to the lights, the smells, the sounds, the promises of a better life. "Retail therapy" is a euphemism for the intravenous narcotics of consumption that numb the pain of living in … Continue reading The Consumatronic Theme Park
As just about everything on this planet becomes commercialised, humans themselves are not exempt. Necrocapitalism is pushing every life form and resource towards its death sentence, the supermarketization route. The role of the consumer is no longer limited to consuming. They are now a product themselves. More accurately, they are a digital slave with three … Continue reading Know Yourself: The Exploited Consumatron
Our brain has a tremendous affinity for stability. It desperately wants to believe in an unchanging world, even as the world changes. In fact, our brain is so obsessed with stability that it constantly convinces itself that the world is barely in flux. This make-believe stability appears to be fundamental to our feeling of safety, … Continue reading Collapse 101: Climate Denial and the Trauma Response
Along with relinquishing much of our freedom to technology, we have exchanged true happiness with counterfeit versions which only make sense in a machine world: we quantify happiness based on the number of consumer goods we buy and on GDP rather than on meaningful existence, exactly because we emulate machines: focusing only on the numbers … Continue reading Happiness In the Machine Age: An Exclusively Human Problem
All wars, conflicts, genocides and ecocides have originated in supremacy. Our civilisation has never been able to root out prejudice, speciesism or discrimination because supremacy, of all shapes and sizes, is a formidable economic powerhouse. Supremacy narratives facilitated the creation of false hierarchies which propped up power structures and enabled the worst of capitalism: black … Continue reading The New Relentless Global Threat of Supremacy
Manufactured narratives of conflict and supremacy pervade every aspect of human civilisation, even the very areas tasked specifically with questioning, challenging and reframing toxic narratives we created over the millennia. The so-called vanguards of human thought, objectivity and innovation have never been truly objective. Scientific disciplines may have invented new technologies and uncovered new knowledge, … Continue reading How Human Supremacy Killed the Search For Knowledge
Although chaotic on the surface, the ecosystem is incredibly simple in its core operating principles. But when studying ecosystems and climate systems, we always overcomplicate things. We focus only on the chaos and conflict between species and between weather elements, forgetting about the principle of balance that supersedes them. This is because we choose to … Continue reading The Myth of The Predator
George Tsakraklides 