The number of people working because it gives them meaning as opposed to simply paying for their now unaffordable rent, mortgage or dependents, has reached peak low. As for the number of people whose work agrees with their deeper ethics, values and beliefs, it is close to zero. The first lesson we learn as we … Continue reading Caution: Work Is Approaching Peak Bullshit
(from Wicked7.org) You have said that your latest work – Frankenpolitics – points fingers – who for what are you holding responsible for the mess we’re in? Those who have purchased politics and democracy, and those in power who allowed themselves to be purchased. At this point both entities, that is, money and power, are behaving … Continue reading Frankenpolitics: An Interview With George Tsakraklides
Educational institutions the world over are keeping up pretences, trying to lure students with the false promise of a career which won’t exist on a collapsing planet. Academia after all, is no different than Business as Usual. Since education became a business, universities are only interested in taking your cash. Students graduate with a mountain … Continue reading Anthropocene University – Spring Registration for Classes Now Open
For a species that can calculate derivatives, project ballistic trajectories, and estimate sales volumes, it is astounding that humans stubbornly refuse to even acknowledge the negative effects of what is by far their most destructive, as well as most obvious, impact on the planet: overpopulation. You won’t hear the Roger Hallams, the George Monbiots, Greenpeaces … Continue reading Why None of These People Will Ever Talk to You About Overpopulation and Overshoot
Once a year around December time, they are spawned Triggered by electric heating, they put on their heavy nylon wings, and they fly away Bursting out into the streets in their billions, they are the Christmas locusts, ready to devour anything in their path. Guided by the light reflected from plastic baubles, they are easy … Continue reading The Christmas Locusts
A lesson which humans have yet to learn from nature is to let go of self-destructive desires. Each autumn across the north and south hemispheres, deciduous trees let go of trillions of leaves. In doing so, they ensure their survival for another year. Had they attempted to hold on to those leaves, the trees would … Continue reading Degrowth: The Wisdom of Letting Go
Those aged up to 27 and who are currently approaching adulthood, are growing up in the most frightening, daunting version of this world humanity has ever seen. Everything is stacked up against them. Injured by two global financial crises, mentally and physically damaged by pandemics and wars, and knowing they are growing up in a … Continue reading Collapse Report: The Gen Z Revolt Is Here
Fascism will take away our freedoms, but our freedoms were limited to begin with. In fact, they were illusions of freedom. Because we were served an illusion of choice, and when it comes to voting choice for that matter, an illusion of democracy itself. Whether Kamala or Trump had won, this world would have gone … Continue reading Fascism and Capitalism. A Short Reference Guide on How the Two (Don’t) Differ
If there was ever a worst-case scenario of climate crisis acceleration and descent into an apocalyptic world, look no further than current reality. That scenario is playing right now. Humanity is a sinking ship under mutiny: all sailors are fighting with each other to become captain, literally as they die. The direction this civilisation has … Continue reading The Great Silence of The Human Lambs
Trump is what happens to a country when it stops caring about politics and outsources democracy to corporate investors. I’ve lived 12 years in the US. Whenever I attempted to start a political conversation with an American, I would be interrupted by “OMG did you see that show on TV last night? It was hilarious”. … Continue reading When Politics Dies
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