It should never be surprising that the most capitalist country on Earth is also the most violent: because capitalism is a system that thrives on cutthroat competition, consumer deceit, exploitation and extortion - all of which are extreme forms of violence. From aggressive takeovers to monopolies and trade wars, the game of capitalism has always … Continue reading Shitholification: Why Capitalism Will Always Breed Violence
When a nation tolerates leaders who molest, bomb, and desecrate the youngest, most defenceless members of this society, allows them to replicate their crime in other countries, and then boast about it in the media, we are not simply looking at the legitimization of crime. We are witnessing the closing of a seamless, watertight economic … Continue reading The Reason Behind the Sudden Rise of Western Pedo States
19 years ago, author and activist Naomi Klein turned the mirror on the ugly, sadistic face of our world’s economic system by coining the brilliant term Disaster Capitalism: what happens when industrialists with deep pockets and politicians with zero morals come together to engineer, create, and then exploit, large scale crises that the 1% can monetize. … Continue reading The Death Commodity: War Capitalism in the Age of AI
The fact that the most dangerous psychopaths end up in the highest positions of power is a huge indictment on society. It is obvious that society isn’t working, unless our intention was never to build a society, but another version of a jungle. Because it seems that our societies will always give psychopaths the benefit … Continue reading Evilution: Why the Psychopaths Always Win
The minute a human becomes a soldier, they become a fast-moving consumer good in the war sausage factory: entering the factory as a life form with an identity and soul, and processed into an anonymous object that is hurled against other anonymous objects. War is the ultimate dehumanization. I learned this first hand when I … Continue reading It Is Never a War. It Is Always a Business
Last week an unprecedented storm took down much of the waterfront in my neighbourhood. Ugly concrete structures built illegally next to the water’s edge were demolished by waves never before witnessed in this sleepy seaside town. They came in like aliens, cleverly snuck themselves under the sandy foundations and simply let gravity do the rest. … Continue reading A Moment’s Wreckage
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
George Tsakraklides 