For billions of years nature operated without the need for laws, rights or borders: food, habitat, and most every other resource on the planet were shared between 10 million species. But when Homo sapiens emerged and arbitrarily appointed themselves the de facto owners of everything, they brought with them the novel concept of personal ownership: of land, of resources, and … Continue reading The Rights of Nature: A Short History of Ownership
The fact that humans are now quickly running out of affordable food and affordable housing is something that should tell a very simple story, yet financial analysts and news outlets continue to downgrade our endgame to a mere temporary global downturn. Then again, if every single human civilisational collapse over the past ten thousand years … Continue reading Humans Don’t Belong on Earth: The Great Depletion of Everything
Trauma is universal, and death is the ultimate trauma. We all have a childhood memory of falling and hurting ourselves, feeling the rough gravel and dirt against our fresh, young skin as it tore open and began to bleed. We remember times when we felt embarrassed and wanted to disappear, or times when we were … Continue reading Self-Harming Civilizations: Ancestral Trauma and the Denial of Death
I’ve avoided writing about this for at least half a year now, mostly because the subject matter was so emotionally charged that I couldn’t find the guts to open it up. Writing about this back then would have been like rubbing salt on an open wound: there are certain topics where writing helps you put … Continue reading Nature Always Vanishes at Night
It took Coca Cola 17 whole years, from 1886 to 1903, to remove cocaine from its toxic formula following rising public concern. How many years before AI deep fake identity theft is banned from YouTube and other social media? It would seem that the technobroligarchy is trying to get us addicted to some potent digital cocaine: AI … Continue reading The Age of Digital Cocaine: Deep Fakes and Substack Data Leak.
As the human world succumbs to the grip of autocracy, we are never short of examples from the natural world where nature itself successfully revolted against power. Today I bring you another story of a failed coup: the failed domestication of the hyacinth. The dominant logic of plant breeding has always been to maximize the most monetizable quality … Continue reading Genomic Autocracies: How Hyacinths Resisted Human Domestication
Since most of us are intuitively familiar with only one definition of rape, let’s not forget the type of rape that always falls by the wayside: in late 2022 the Epstein estate was forced to pay half a million USD in damages coming from the Gaza-style assault that Jeffrey Epstein launched on the natural ecosystems of … Continue reading The Rape of Epstein Island
My first job out of graduate school was also my first and only job offer. I jumped at the opportunity of becoming a manager at a fungal microbiology laboratory, specializing on indoor mold: people would bring me samples from their blackened shower wall, their carpet, or their basement, and I would analyze them. I would … Continue reading Biology Lessons In Degrowth: The Three Stages of Civilisation
Systems never change. First, they fail the people, and then they are demolished by the people. America is becoming witness to its own painful, but beautiful demolition. People are refusing to buy. They are seeing through exploitative employers. They are waking up to a rotten system than never “had their back”. And they are resisting … Continue reading The Myth of System Change. And The Heroes That Actually Make It Happen
I never had friends in the army or police force, but during my compulsory army service I did gain plenty of exposure to the reptilian brain of paid army personnel. I know a thing or two about boys with toys, especially the ones who like to make a career out of their gun fetish. Occasionally … Continue reading America’s Nazi Dumbass Problem: The Bovino Effect
George Tsakraklides 