When a species eliminates all predators, it is a threat to everything. And when its population reaches astronomical numbers, this threat becomes existential. Everything is attacked, including the inanimate world: atmosphere, weather, energy, temperature. The planetary infrastructure is taken down bit by bit, much like a Hollywood set hurriedly dismantled to make space for the … Continue reading Hallucinating Parasites and the War on Physics
As filler humans, we are entering a new slavery situation where our master is not even human. We can’t see them because they don’t have a face, and we can’t attack them because they are virtually everywhere. For a species who invented the concept of personal ownership, it was very ironic yet at the same … Continue reading Human Pets of the Consumaverse
A successful business is one which can create more of itself, regardless of cost to humans or the planet. Unless it has aggressive plans to expand, a business today should have little reason to exist. This dogma of expansion now pervades all economic activity: businesses must collaborate with the Unhappiness Machine of marketing, religion, the … Continue reading When Profit Grows a Brain: the rise of sentient necrocapitalism
This civilisation has learned to survive by extraction, exploitation and extinction. It is the teenager walking up to the fridge, taking whatever they need without ever wondering who went grocery shopping, how much it cost, and who paid the electric bill. This lazy formula of existence has been so easy and straightforward, so successful and … Continue reading The Civilisational Lie
Follow the link to listen to my talk with the brilliant Alex Smith from Radio Ecoshock https://www.ecoshock.org/2024/01/spectacle-necrocapitalism-methane.html
All civilisations eventually reach the point where they fail to keep track of all that they have created. They become blind to their past, cut off from any memory of their beginnings, like traumatised orphans who never met their real parents or, smartphone users with no knowledge of how a smartphone is made, or what … Continue reading A New Spiritual Geography: The Revenge of The Landfills
This appeared this morning on Amazon. Thank you! George Tsakraklides is a brilliant author who synthesizes a great depth of knowledge across a variety of disciplines in his gripping, resonant, and highly pertinent assessment of our self-contradictory ouroboros we call capitalistic society. Tsakraklides offers us new language with which we can apprehend this terrifying and … Continue reading Book Review for In The Grip
Our story, the story of Earth, couldn’t possibly be more surreal and miraculous at the same time. Even the smartest team of human designers would almost certainly have failed to imagine, not least create, our world from scratch - even if they had access to all the tools and elements in the periodic table. How … Continue reading Surreal Clockwork
In our quest for immortality, we have almost sought to convince ourselves that we are not from Earth, therefore not mortal. The industrial revolution, the look and feel of our modern cities, our cars, our houses, have all served to try and convince us that we are not even related to everything else that lives … Continue reading Ashamed Of Our Roots
But of course, none of our politicians have the guts to tell us that, if emissions were to decrease at the rate they need to, the government would need to take our toys away. Instead, they promise us that we can continue to live wastefully, while they put up some wind turbines to "cancel it … Continue reading The Inconvenient Message of Downsizing
