As a desperate yet foolish humanity attempts to escape the fires and floods it set in motion, the likelihood is that it will follow the same ancient knee-jerk reactions it always has: looking for solutions in half-baked technology and “destroy-now, pay-later capitalism”, than look deep within itself. Worse even, it will continue to set off … Continue reading The Big Unconsciousness: The Rain in Spain Has Come Here to Remain
The silence was horrifying as we walked amongst huge ancient rows of beech trees bathed in autumnal sunlight. Everything was so quiet that it felt almost unreal, like we had been dropped inside a postcard frozen in time and given permission to walk about for a bit before it all came back to life. The … Continue reading The Extinction Report: Journey To a Disappearing Ecosystem
In its futile quest for the ultimate delusion of immortality, humanity always sought to convince itself of the most vivid supremacy fantasy: that humans are not from Earth. The industrial revolution, the look and feel of our modern cities, our cars, our houses, were all shaped to subconsciously convince us that we are not even … Continue reading The Supremacy Sci-Fi of Human Civilisation: From Caves to Spaceships and Back to Caves
By now, it is becoming clear that capitalism is a death trap for both civilisation and the planet hosting it. Yet most of us continue to go through the motions of “work, shop, repeat”, feeling like we have no choice but to pretend that “normal life as we know it” can somehow continue. We struggle … Continue reading Revolt of the Consumatrons: Resisting Economic Growth
It was unavoidable from our very beginnings that a species with this much in-built psychosis would only be able to give rise to a self-destructive civilisation. The full-time job of government, corporates and the media is now to simply keep everyone convinced that this self-annihilating civilisation is somehow supposed to make sense. Well, it … Continue reading Resisting the Curse of Global Capital: Transformation Through Collapse
Every criminal can walk out of prison free if they manage to incriminate the prosecution. Global capital is a gangster who gets away with murder every single time, by implicating us into its crimes. As consumatrons we are wholly dependent on the criminal necrosystem of the human Ponzi economy. We are accomplices who are bribed … Continue reading Collective Incrimination: How Global Capital Gets Away With Everything
Listen to my new interview at Alex Smith's Ecoshock Radio about my latest book and more. Alex asks me about some of the main concepts in the book, chapter by chapter. And here is the previous interview from last January George is an author, researcher, molecular biologist and food scientist. You can follow him on … Continue reading Beyond The Petri Dish (Audio)
The idea that a small group of individuals can form a “government” representing the best interests of its people has been one of the most disastrous leaps of faith humanity ever took. Arguably, as our societies grew, we had no choice but to form these governments. Although transferring power and authority from the masses to … Continue reading How Government Became a Hiding Place for Capital
The most successful protests in human history were led by angry mobs with simple and concrete demands: freedom, food, equality, the right to vote and so on. The anger, the urgency and the passion drove some demonstrators to even sacrifice their lives for their cause. Whether they were French peasants, African Americans, LGBTQ activists or … Continue reading Can a System Revolt Against Itself? Why Climate Protest May Be Completely Doomed.
Thousands of years ago humans supercharged their destiny by embracing the most disruptive, powerful, and life-changing technologies. Although the agricultural, industrial, and information revolutions are traditionally discussed as discrete epochs, they are in fact part of one, big progression: our increasing capability to do things at scale; in the case of these three revolutions, to … Continue reading The Impossible Math of Growth
George Tsakraklides 