Value comes in many shapes and forms. Gold and diamonds may be two of the most chemically and biologically inert substances on Earth, but they have immense value to humans. Conversely things like dead leaves, mud, sea water or desert dust have little monetizable value in the human economy but huge importance for the planet. … Continue reading The Pseudoscience of Economics
Scarcity is our natural mental state, but this all changed once industrial civilisation handed everything to us on a silver platter. In fact, we are happiest when resources are in short supply. Anthropologists and volunteers in third world countries never fail to mention how some of the biggest, widest, longest-lasting smiles they’ve ever witnessed were … Continue reading The Happiness Trap: How Humans Became Terrified of Scarcity
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. Thank you. As societies grew into increasingly complex economies, the need for specialised skills gave rise to specialised humans. Each successive era … Continue reading Laboured To Extinction: How We Became the Planet of the Working Zombies
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.
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
The Cyberfascism Chronicles Quick Note: the following is an account of events that took place on my Twitter account over the past year and a half. I may be based in Greece, but in the age of the Dopamine Dystopia cyber Hitlers can shut you down wherever you live. DOGE may be a US government … Continue reading A Writer’s Revenge: How I Fought Elon
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
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
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
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
George Tsakraklides 