Why The Bad Guys Keep Winning: A 500-Word Manifesto Against The Shitocracy

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If Zuckerberg deliberately enables advertisers to microtarget weight-insecure girls with content that will push them to suicide, then we are living in an unprecedented dystopia ruled by the sickest of minds. But that’s not all. If Bezos ranks his workers based on how quickly they can take a shit, Musk forces his to bring their own toilet paper to … Continue reading Why The Bad Guys Keep Winning: A 500-Word Manifesto Against The Shitocracy

Patience

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Today I discovered that one of my Cyclamen coum plants in the upper woodland garden had produced offspring: tiny one-leaf seedlings fighting for space and light under the canopy of a 45 year-old evergreen Jasminum mesnyi that complements their intense fuchsia colour with its narcissus-yellow blooms. Both plants bloom in the middle of February, a most drab … Continue reading Patience

How They Killed Reality

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Today’s epidemic of authoritarianism is the consequence of a society that long ago embraced the values of necrocapitalist imperialism: ruthless profit, heartlessness, manipulation, and pure, unadulterated sadism toward the most vulnerable. In an increasingly remote-operated world, attributing responsibility is becoming near impossible: tyrants and oligarchs can safely hide behind layers of code, while the rest of … Continue reading How They Killed Reality

American Deathcare: The Short Story

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Sickness and death have become much bigger money-makers for the economy than the provision of health coverage to citizens. Good health coverage requires available doctors, affordable medicines and capable hospitals, all of which cost the government money it doesn’t want to spend. You see, governments in America function like businesses, not governments. They won’t invest … Continue reading American Deathcare: The Short Story

They Came. They Danced. They Went Extinct

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I normally don’t expect a nature hike in the clean suburban air of my beach town to turn into a back-to-the future, post-apocalyptic excursion into the remnants of an extinct society. But hey ho, after we had climbed up the hill, enjoyed spectacular views and traversed a forest that was literally dying for a drink of October … Continue reading They Came. They Danced. They Went Extinct

A 400-Word History of Capitalism

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Humans were not corrupted by capitalism. They created it because they were corrupt in the first place. Capitalism has been accused of creating today’s selfishness, individualism and narcissism, but these vices pre-existed. Capitalism merely came along to monetize them. Greed was there from the start. Capitalism was the app that codified, amplified, digitized and weaponized it. It … Continue reading A 400-Word History of Capitalism

Meditative Degrowth: Sometimes The Smartest Act of Defiance Is To Stay Still

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125 million years ago an exceptionally long, baking hot summer began to sweep through the Celestial Mountain in the Tien Shan alpine range spanning modern-day Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. The scorching conditions on the desiccated slopes of the mountain left little room for survival for the great majority of organisms, and the freezing … Continue reading Meditative Degrowth: Sometimes The Smartest Act of Defiance Is To Stay Still

Stewards of Destruction: How the Keystone Hypothesis Enabled Popular Science to Mislead Us

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In 1969 American ecologist Robert Paine removed as many starfish as he could from a section of a Washington beach, to see what would happen to the marine ecosystem. The result was a devastating collapse in biodiversity - mostly because mussels, the key food source for the starfish, overproliferated and took over the habitat they … Continue reading Stewards of Destruction: How the Keystone Hypothesis Enabled Popular Science to Mislead Us

After The Genocide: The Global Youth Intifada

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After Gaza, it is anyone’s guess where the next Holocaust will be or which exact form it takes. But make no mistake: imprisoning and blackmailing people behind fences has always been a huge moneymaker for the capitalist amoeboid. Sometimes the fence is invisible but trust me, it’s there. We are all shoved into concentration camps … Continue reading After The Genocide: The Global Youth Intifada

Designed For Extinction: Why Humans Developed the Wrong Type of Intelligence

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Contrary to what our impressive technological milestones suggest, we have never been in charge of our fate. Like any organism striving to maximize its chances of survival, our choices were blindly driven by expansion: economic growth, domination, population increase - whatever it took, whatever the cost to us or the planet. From our humble beginnings as monocellular life … Continue reading Designed For Extinction: Why Humans Developed the Wrong Type of Intelligence