I was born in Greece in 1973, seven months before the dictatorship ended.  So technically, I have lived through a dictatorship.  The 80s was a time when memories of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Pinochet, Papadopoulos and countless other psychofascists were still pretty raw.  Although people in my generation may not have experienced dictatorship directly as adults, … Continue reading Americans: You Can Have Your Dictatorship Back Now, Thanks Very Much

The industrial revolution was the time when this civilisation completely lost it.  Like a virus, it became more concerned with making infinite copies of itself than contemplate the meaning and purpose of that which it made copies of.  Narratives of perpetual economic growth and procreation were aggressively pushed by the psychonomy to continue making photocopied … Continue reading The Corruption of Happiness

The shameless hypocrisy of authority is that it will always care more about itself than the people it was meant to represent.  This self-interest has always brought authority in closer affinity to other forms of power such as capital, rather than to its people.  Power only collaborates with power.  The alliance between the main two … Continue reading Power, Capital, and Self-Destruction