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
The splitting of our personality between the real and the virtual is a recipe for developing almost every form of mental health pathology that exists. The more we divide ourselves into distinct, sometimes incompatible personalities e.g. between our professional and personal avatars, the more difficult it becomes to feel whole, genuine and content at any … Continue reading Multiple Avatar Psychosis
George is an author, researcher, chemist, molecular biologist and food scientist. You can follow him on Twitter @99blackbaloons or enjoy his books https://www.amazon.com/Unhappiness-Machine-stories-Systemic-Collapse/dp/B0BRLVR51R/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Necrocapitalism may have reached sentience, but there is another sentient system on this planet that is much, much older. In fact, it is ancient. It is billions of years old. The rocks that fall off a cliff, the sea kelp that grows in the ocean, the light of the sun sweeping over land in the … Continue reading Under the Watchful Gaze of the Earthnet of Things
The Unhappiness Machine tells us a story that we are all familiar with in one way or another but insist on not hearing: the story of man's rapid progress towards the end of the world he knows and organizes. In this book, which draws attention to the tragedy of the human species, ashamed of its … Continue reading Turkish Book Review – The Unhappiness Machine (Livera Publications)
Tonight I pasted into an AI prompt some excerpts from my cli-fi fantasy eco-thriller "A New Earth". Here's what it produced: Five minutes later, and the blue Northern Lights had entered John’s living room. Undulating slowly, sometimes speeding up, they hovered above him on the ceiling for a bit, before heading for the door. The … Continue reading A New Earth – (ILLUSTRATED)
In the words of David Attenborough, “humans have overrun the planet”. We are the most invasive species this planet has ever known. The study of ecology and ecosystem balance is an embarrassing oxymoron, coming from a species that has broken every possible rule in the ecosystem book. A species which has redefined, expanded and exceeded the definition … Continue reading The Need For Human-Free Zones
George Tsakraklides 