All civilisations eventually reach the point where they fail to keep track of all that they have created. They become blind to their past, cut off from any memory of their beginnings, like traumatised orphans who never met their real parents or, smartphone users with no knowledge of how a smartphone is made, or what … Continue reading A New Spiritual Geography: The Revenge of The Landfills
This appeared this morning on Amazon. Thank you! George Tsakraklides is a brilliant author who synthesizes a great depth of knowledge across a variety of disciplines in his gripping, resonant, and highly pertinent assessment of our self-contradictory ouroboros we call capitalistic society. Tsakraklides offers us new language with which we can apprehend this terrifying and … Continue reading Book Review for In The Grip
Our story, the story of Earth, couldn’t possibly be more surreal and miraculous at the same time. Even the smartest team of human designers would almost certainly have failed to imagine, not least create, our world from scratch - even if they had access to all the tools and elements in the periodic table. How … Continue reading Surreal Clockwork
In our quest for immortality, we have almost sought to convince ourselves that we are not from Earth, therefore not mortal. The industrial revolution, the look and feel of our modern cities, our cars, our houses, have all served to try and convince us that we are not even related to everything else that lives … Continue reading Ashamed Of Our Roots
But of course, none of our politicians have the guts to tell us that, if emissions were to decrease at the rate they need to, the government would need to take our toys away. Instead, they promise us that we can continue to live wastefully, while they put up some wind turbines to "cancel it … Continue reading The Inconvenient Message of Downsizing
Those following the more pragmatic conversations on the topic know that, if there ever was a chance of keeping this planet habitable, it wouldn't be through solar panels and electric vehicles. These technologies would come at an incredible carbon and ecological cost, if they were ever to be deployed at the massive scale required to … Continue reading The Fairy Tale Is Over
Like with any commercial zoo, the visitors' brochure always shows happy animals delightfully roaming about in their confined, carefully curated cages, occasionally interacting gleefully with both the staff and the public. They are carefully photoshopped to look like animals who have chosen their "stardom": they love the attention and the spotlight, because all they ever … Continue reading Living and Dying in the Consumatron Zoo
Necrocapitalism manages to hide its dark agenda behind the most colourful, mesmerizing shopfront: an endless theme park of consumerism, where our physical senses succumb to the lights, the smells, the sounds, the promises of a better "life". "Retail therapy" as it is called, is a euphemism for the intravenous narcotics of consumerism which numb the … Continue reading The Consumatron Theme Park
We may think that we are simply slaves to our CO2-emitting consumerism, but in reality we are slaves to something much more sinister, and increasingly more intelligent: the Thing is a web of manipulation which spans the corporate interests of the psychonomy, political power structures, and popular culture narratives which the human herd has always … Continue reading Brain Inundation
Society has become a drug addict trapped in its own hallucinations, which are essential in order to survive this dystopia. We have built a civilisation and self-affirming #psychonomy which do everything in their power to maintain our delusion that this party will go on forever. The media machine of the farm, which is about to … Continue reading Information Pandemics
George Tsakraklides 