Hi…where’s our next raid? I’m bored! Dictators never act alone, because they simply can’t. An autocracy is always a group effort, much like a pack of wolves: the leader of the pack is only the spark, the trigger. The real effort is invested not by the dictator themselves but by the thousands, millions who have chosen to … Continue reading Nation of Carolines: How to Be a Fascist Bimbo
People who suffer from addiction are sometimes mistakenly seen as the most mentally unbalanced members of society. But while they may be highly self-destructive, they are rarely of any threat to other people. Many of them are in fact functional, productive individuals who often manage to joggle their addiction with holding down a job and … Continue reading Inside the Brain of a Dictator: Why Trump Will Ultimately Use the Nuclear Codes
The reason why there are thousands of times more small fish in the ocean compared to sharks is very simple: sharks eat a lot more, so they come at a very high resource cost to the ecosystem. Nature has designed sharks so that they have far fewer viable offspring than smaller fish, not only so … Continue reading The Real Reason Why Human Population Must, and Will, Crash
When I was between the ages of five and ten, my father frequently took me to visit my aunts that lived back in the village where he had been raised. It was a small town tucked away in the leafy mountains of north central Greece, a world apart from the hot, dusty, tourist cities of … Continue reading Indestructible
When you’re in a relationship that seems to be hitting the skids faster than you can say “divorce”, it is tempting to romanticize about what could have been, should have been, all the things that went wrong which could have been avoided, and how both of you could have handled situations differently. You maintain an … Continue reading Detoxing from the Hope Porn: Why Collapse Realism Is the New Activism
I must have been 8 years old when my father and I kneeled on the dirt and tore open a small, clear plastic bag with a cheap, generic drawing of a white rose printed on it. Inside, there was a dried-up brown/black wooden stick, slightly longer than a pencil. “This is a rose” he said, … Continue reading Why Roses Have Thorns
Desperate to denounce their mortality, humans always found refuge in some of the most ludicrous supremacy hallucinations. The majority of these fantasies, which soon morphed into organised religions, usually concurred that humans had appeared suddenly, spontaneously, and independently from everything else, and that quite possibly they were not even originally from Earth - yet somehow … Continue reading How Christianity Committed the Ultimate Eco-Blasphemy
Thousands of years ago, when humans started creating the first breeding lines of plants and animals, they had no idea that by doing so they had begun a long process of gradual decimation of the genetic pool that was so critical to the survival of these life forms. By limiting DNA variation often down to … Continue reading Human Pets: A Brief History of Behavioural Eugenics
When I first started gardening, I made one of the most common beginner errors: mistakenly thinking that gardening was all about taking care of plants. It seemed like a perfectly logical assumption at the time, one which however would prove no less than catastrophic just a few months on, as I watched the plant death … Continue reading Conversations with the Afterlife: The Cursed Garden
Yet another way by which religion and the Unhappiness Machine exercised control was through the myth of human purpose: not only were we supreme beings, we also had a “divine purpose”. We were meant to excel in everything, using our incredible intelligence to patronisingly preside over the creation, protecting and destroying it at the same time. An … Continue reading The Myth of Human Purpose
George Tsakraklides 