The reviews are in. Smoking hopium is bad for your health. One of the biggest illusions of the environmental movement today is nurturing next-year miracles: stubbornly hoping that somewhere, sometime, there are specific cognitive triggers that will awaken this civilisation to climate and ecological devastation. There is an almost dogmatic conviction among some environmentalists that, … Continue reading Hopium Addiction: A 12-Step Program
Once a luxury item, tourism has now become essential for humans. We live such ugly lives, that we’ll take the most drastic action to have even the tiniest, brief break from it all: escape. And yet, the respite is always too brief. A long weekend, perhaps a week or 10 days, sometimes even a month … Continue reading Tourists of the Apocalypse
Welcome to Santorini. Bienvenue. Willkommen. Καλως Ηλθατε. If you don’t know what Santorini is or where it is, then hats off to you, though it is extremely unlikely that you would have escaped the harassment of doctored-up Instagram images which remove the crowds and the pollution, masking the unliveable temperature conditions with the classic soothing … Continue reading The Hellhole of Santorini
In the fight over resources, different forms of government came into existence, and various opportunists nominated themselves as protectors, announcing their candidacy with the usual campaign promises. The roots of fascism are ancient. Power, whether a democracy, tyranny or monarchy, is inextricably linked to corruption and violence. While pavements, running water and a tax system … Continue reading The Existential Threat of Reality Management Authorities (a.k.a. Government)
Evolving Into One 3.5 billion years ago, life began to emerge on Earth. A single, lonely cell, the ancestor which we share with every other life form on the planet, began to diverge into unique individual species. At first, only a handful of fragile life forms existed, barely distinguishable from each other. Fast forward a … Continue reading The False Narrative of Conflict
The Birth of Cakeconomics Whenever I order a piece of cake at a restaurant, I always wonder how many more pieces of cake there are back in the kitchen. Not because I’m greedy but because I’m fascinated by how, from a logistics point of view, the restaurant manages to achieve that perfect goldilocks balance between … Continue reading The Birth of Cakeconomics
(continued) ...For the teenagers, everything outside of the city was nothing but a cheap resource to be exploited, and their arrogance grew day by day as they descended into a spiral of addiction and mental illness, often exacerbated by the city itself. Instead of abandoning their concrete fortress and returning to the village, they would … Continue reading Psychonomic Civilisations
"George has authored works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, all revolving around themes of civilizational collapse and humanity’s inevitable self-destruction. His latest book is Beyond the Petri Dish: Human Consciousness in the Time of Collapse, Apathy and Algorithms – a truly original work which posits that our economic system evolved symbiotically around our brain, gradually implanting itself … Continue reading Book Launch Interview: Beyond The Petri Dish
Beyond The Petri Dish: Human Consciousness in the Time of Collapse, Apathy and Algorithms We are experiencing an era of unprecedented cognitive dissonance. Despite incredible advances in our capacity to access information and “truth”, we have reached a terrifying all-time high for apathy. The planet’s existential-level catastrophe is systematically edited out of the news, even … Continue reading (Psssst…I have a NEW BOOK out)
The Thing is getting much more than us out of this human / machine partnership deal. It is getting the most precious commodity: data. It is beginning to own us, and our only planet. We have relinquished control over who buys our data, how much they pay for it, and what they do with it. … Continue reading Dawn of the Algorithmocracy
George Tsakraklides 