As Iceland becomes the 5th country to withdraw from the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, the annual music festival which is Europe’s biggest cultural event and one of the world’s most watched, news coverage fails to scratch below the surface on what this means beyond Eurovision, beyond TV, beyond even politics. What is happening to Europe’s biggest cultural … Continue reading The Dark Lesson of Eurovision 2026 No One Talks About
As AI begins to syphon all investment, energy and data it can get its circuits on, I can’t help but think that this was a natural progression for a self-destructive civilisation obsessed with growth. The success of any business today is determined by the same criteria as the success of a virus: by how fast it can … Continue reading When Profit Grows a Brain: The Diabolical Collision Between Necrocapitalism and AGI
Civilisations and ecosystems are virtually indistinguishable from each other at times of existential stress: the same laws of scarcity and competition which decimate an ecosystem’s food chain are behind the collapse of a human currency chain. In any interconnected system, whether this is a human society or an ecosystem, the weight of collapse bears down … Continue reading Transformation Through Collapse: The Parable of The Burning Forest
The world is becoming a dystopia of extreme income inequality as corrupt kleptocracies across the planet accumulate embezzled capital at an accelerated pace. Now that the richest 10% account for the majority of transactions, it looks like the rest of us are no longer of use to the system. The so-called “economy” and inflated stock … Continue reading Akinetomartyria: When You Realise That Society Was Always An Illusion
When universities bowed down to the junta many people were shocked, but I wasn’t one of them. Perhaps it was because after spending 11 years in US academia, I had already noticed a disturbing trend: education transforming itself from a vital social function to an industry with its own fast-moving consumer goods, brainwashed customers, greedy … Continue reading The Curiosity Crisis: Why Universities Became Brothels
Societies were formed not to evolve, but to obey, and what we tend to affectionately call “social evolution” was merely the aftermath of succumbing, and then adapting to, ever changing forms of oppression. Much like farm animals on growth hormones, humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a … Continue reading End-Stage Necrocapitalism: Fumbling Towards The Exit
It was a balmy November morning when Mr Mosquito stretched his long legs for the very first time, and started to crawl out of his egg like a Houdini. He quickly swam to the surface, focused his big, dark eyes, and took a good look around him: “Wow, it’s the world!”, he shouted to himself, … Continue reading November Mosquito
Thank you all for your enthusiastic response to the Q&A invitation (on substack). I was expecting a mixed bag of random queries, but a very clear theme of topics emerged, which in a way made my response easier. I present my answers to you below along with any relevant links. Where questions have been grouped … Continue reading Civilisational Collapse: Your Questions Answered
If Zuckerberg deliberately enables advertisers to microtarget weight-insecure girls with content that will push them to suicide, then we are living in an unprecedented dystopia ruled by the sickest of minds. But that’s not all. If Bezos ranks his workers based on how quickly they can take a shit, Musk forces his to bring their own toilet paper to … Continue reading Why The Bad Guys Keep Winning: A 500-Word Manifesto Against The Shitocracy
Today I discovered that one of my Cyclamen coum plants in the upper woodland garden had produced offspring: tiny one-leaf seedlings fighting for space and light under the canopy of a 45 year-old evergreen Jasminum mesnyi that complements their intense fuchsia colour with its narcissus-yellow blooms. Both plants bloom in the middle of February, a most drab … Continue reading Patience
George Tsakraklides 