Why None of These People Will Ever Talk to You About Overpopulation.

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For a species that can calculate the speed of electrons, predict ballistic trajectories within accuracy of a centimetre, and estimate the distance to nearby stars, it is astounding that it stubbornly refuses to solve the simplest of math problems: overpopulation. You won’t hear the George Monbiots, Greenpeaces and Extinction Rebellions ever talk about overpopulation simply … Continue reading Why None of These People Will Ever Talk to You About Overpopulation.

Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilisational Collapse

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This newsletter is my main income. It is free to subscribe, but thank you to everyone who paid to support my work Global capital has deceived billions who cared about the planet by selling them “green solutions” that are anything but green, simply by virtue of the fact that these solutions are products.  All products … Continue reading Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilisational Collapse

A Brief History of the Dopamine Dystopia: Social Media, AI and Frankenpolitics Laboratories

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If you want to encourage my voice, please support my work by becoming a paid subscriber to this newsletter so that it can continue. I have minimal overheads, no sponsors I sell myself to, bosses who tell me what to write (or NOT write), or staff I have to pay. I’m here for you, raw … Continue reading A Brief History of the Dopamine Dystopia: Social Media, AI and Frankenpolitics Laboratories

Finding Meaning in An Increasingly Absurd World

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Although society at large will never find the courage to acknowledge its existential descent, there is a growing unspoken feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with “The World”: it has simply stopped making sense. Today I pose the question: did it ever make sense? Many try to rationalise today’s state of the world as a … Continue reading Finding Meaning in An Increasingly Absurd World

YOLO Economics: The Macabre Business Continuity Plans of Necrocapitalism

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For a society that does everything in its power to distract itself from its mortal predicaments, it is an irony that it is host to an economic system which worships death through and through, down to the core operating principles of its foundation.  Capitalism is a funeral business enriching itself through extinction, extraction and inequality.  … Continue reading YOLO Economics: The Macabre Business Continuity Plans of Necrocapitalism

History Will Not Repeat Itself

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Every society we create sooner or later faces the challenge of keeping up with an escalating demand for resources.  Although there is an immense drive to acquire more, there is never any strategy to conserve or manage what is already there.  Degrowth may be omnipresent in nature, but it has never been accomplished in a human … Continue reading History Will Not Repeat Itself

Resisting the Oligarchy means Resisting the World’s Biggest Brands

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As the tariffs begin to bite, there is so much that we, ordinary consumers, can do to both survive a world of impossibly inflated prices, as well as teach the brands who stole our democracy and social benefits a big lesson.  This is not just about Elon.  Because behind each of your favourite products there … Continue reading Resisting the Oligarchy means Resisting the World’s Biggest Brands

The Joy of Self-Destruction

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Sometimes we choose self-sabotage over fighting a battle we can’t win. Giving up is a desperate but effective attempt to convince ourselves that we still have full control: we lost the battle not because we lost it, but because we chose not to fight it.  Or at least, that’s what we tell ourselves.  Defeatism is … Continue reading The Joy of Self-Destruction