This newsletter is my main income. It is FREE to subscribe to, but made possible by the generosity of paid members. If you’d like to support my work please consider a paid subscription. As long as there is a large segment of Americans whose world view is based exclusively on misplaced primal anger, movements that successfully harness, … Continue reading The New MAGA
Buddhists often talk about something that sounds counter-intuitive but is actually most profound: “The mind is a prison”. According to this concept, all of us can become consumed by our own thoughts to the point where we become hijacked, ceasing to pay attention to real events and stimuli from our physical environment. We begin to … Continue reading The Dream That Humanity Is Unable To Wake Up From
AI is no less “biological” than you and I. Just because it is made up of entirely different building blocks it doesn’t mean it’s not alive. Just because it is a type of life form that has never existed before it doesn’t mean it’s not a life form. And just because it lacks human-like physical … Continue reading Inside the Mind of an AI. It’s Supremacy Stupid!
The faster an economy rushes itself into growth, the sooner it will perish. All previous economies followed this fate except one: Earth’s billion-year-old natural resource economy has never grown, shrunk or collapsed, at least not until humans came into the picture. Humans think that they invented the economy, but all they did was parasitize an existing … Continue reading Dissecting An Economic Parasite: The Story Of The Greatest Fraud On Earth
Everything humans have achieved to this day was precariously built on the great myth of growth: the belief that this civilisation can continue to dig its own hole without ever falling in. Perpetuating the myth of growth meant keeping citizens hostage to the Ponzi scheme of ecological fraud: by forcibly making us stakeholders to this scheme, we had everything … Continue reading Truth In The Time Of Collapse
Global industrial society may have successfully catered to the primal impulses of food, comfort and ownership, but it would end up blatantly neglecting humanity’s most basic emotional needs. When we created this civilisation, we somehow thought that if we solved issues of scarcity, efficiency and comfort, everything else would fall into place. We thought we were … Continue reading Lost in Consumption: The Age of the Consumatronic Zombie
For years I have marvelled at the sight of flame-red tulips returning faithfully each March right at the edge of the sea cliff my hideous block of flats is built on. Who planted these tulips here? I’ve asked my neighbours and tried to trace the history of the place, but never got anywhere with my … Continue reading Farming Ourselves to Extinction: The Great Tulip Uprising of 1822
The belief that a small group of individuals forming a “government” can be trusted to represent the best interests of its people has been one of the most disastrous leaps of faith our civilisation ever took. Some may argue that as our societies grew, we had no choice but to form administrative superstructures that could … Continue reading Governments: Did We Ever Really Need Them?
Act 1: The Invention of the Morally Corrupt Consumer 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 … Continue reading How Humans Invented Waste
Any species subscribing to narratives of its supremacy over other species will sooner or later fall prey to identical narratives within its own society. It was unavoidable therefore that the myth of human supremacy would be cloned and reproduced across social strata: racial supremacy, income supremacy, cultural, gender and straight supremacy are mere versions of … Continue reading Capitalism Doesn’t Want You To Survive What’s Coming
George Tsakraklides 