Thank You to Frank Forencich and the Radically Human team for one of the most exciting, topical and daring conversations I’ve had in a while, part of the Exuberant Animal series. Watch the video if you’re interested in:Consciousness within the DystopiaNecrocapitalism and the ConsumatronActivism and Finding SanityFinding Your Radical HumanPeace✌🏽 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vjc7f9z8fc&t=34s
Overshoot Deficit Disorder
When I warned years ago that the climate crisis would be completely forgotten in a few years, I was ignored like some type of attention-seeking “boy cried wolf” conspiracist. But I meant what I said. And I still mean it, and events prove me right. Just look around, even the worst-case scenario didn’t look this … Continue reading Overshoot Deficit Disorder
The Unbearable Lightness of Entertainment
Entertainment has become indispensable to the necrosystem both as a distraction and a buffer against truth. Making light of disasters is the most effective way to normalise crises and deflect from any serious conversation attempting to zoom in on culprits. Fortunately for the ruling classes, people desperate for distraction love to be entertained and it … Continue reading The Unbearable Lightness of Entertainment
In The Age of Infinite Consumer Choice, The Only Choice is Collapse
I was asked during an interview by an American institution what choices do we have in the current environment: Trump, fascism, etc. As a determinist, I don't believe choice exists. It doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for choice, but the chances of avoiding the inevitable demise of humans are slim to none. The US political … Continue reading In The Age of Infinite Consumer Choice, The Only Choice is Collapse
The Consumatronic Dystopia
Our economic system has preyed upon our survival instincts to turn us into insecure consumatrons. The more we define ourselves by what we own, the more this system owns us. We have come to a point in our history where our sense of self-worth is drawn not from self-respect, but from our level of access … Continue reading The Consumatronic Dystopia
The Extinction Tariff
The economic war between US and Canada, Mexico or China is only the fine script in the much wider economic war taking place between a bankrupt humanity on one hand, and an equally bankrupt Earth on the other. The real war of tariffs is taking place between two much less known economies: the human Ponzi … Continue reading The Extinction Tariff
Live Fast, Die Young: The Great Procrastination
The short-term nature of this civilisation is evident in its short-term economic system: impulse buying, instant gratification, single-use commodities and single-use natural resources are all manifestations of a mindset that systematically ignores long-term repercussions. Our psychological coping mechanisms and addictions seek short term relief in unhealthy foods, drugs, and habits that make us feel good … Continue reading Live Fast, Die Young: The Great Procrastination
Final Destination: Extinction
With a brain no longer fit for a world of scarcity, humans meet the definition of an evolutionary dead-end: a species unable to adapt. Extinction events occur when environmental conditions change too rapidly for organisms to develop evolutionary adaptations, and this is precisely what is happening to humans. Runaway climate change is altering Earth too fast … Continue reading Final Destination: Extinction
The longest 10 minutes of your life have just begun
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
A Brain from Another Time
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
