Almost 1 in 5 (18%) in my poll believe overpopulation is a hoax, a number way too high for my reader and Twitter audience, which comprised the sample of this quick poll (unless the poll was infiltrated by Elon’s trolls, something very frequent on my posts). Obviously, this figure would have been much, much higher … Continue reading Too Many Elephants In The Room: The Overpopulation Taboo (Readers’ Poll)
As the psychonomy expanded, the planet suffered the tragic consequences of humans effectively domesticating themselves within their own prison, while at the same time outsourcing their civilisation to The Thing: an economic management authority hungry for sales data and tasked with breeding generation after generation of increasingly estranged, brainwashed and unhealthy human cattle. Most of … Continue reading Generations of Ecological Estrangement
As ancient as it is, and however many centuries it may have lasted, this unsustainable economic system was always destined to destroy itself. The narratives of our Civilisational Lie may have normalised unsustainable growth and unsustainable population, but what we, humans, consider “normal” is an impossible fantasy of our imagination. The laws of physics disagree … Continue reading The Argument for Assisted Collapse
For young humans, everything outside the city was nothing but a cheap resource to exploit. Their arrogance grew day by day as they entered a downward spiral of addiction and mental illness exacerbated by the city itself. Instead of abandoning their concrete fortress and returning to the village, they would choose to stay here in … Continue reading Necrocapitalism 101: The Birth of The Urban Psychonomy
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
