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
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 are harmful to the planet, however green their credentials might be. Bringing a product to market inflicts immense devastation: the minute a … Continue reading The Great “Solutions” Swindle: Capital, Products, Technology and the Civilisational Lie
This planet may have witnessed five major previous extinction events, but it has never been boiled before this fast, this much, for this long. A combination of ecological destruction, pollution, and the expected culmination of the climate crisis over the coming hundreds of years, constitute Earth's first ever long-range sudden systemic extinction (LRSSE) event. A … Continue reading Long-Range Sudden Systemic Extinction (LRSSE): Why This Time Will Be Different
Evolving Into One 3.5 billion years ago, life began to emerge on Earth. A single, lonely cell, the ancestor which we share with every other life form on the planet, began to diverge into unique individual species. At first, only a handful of fragile life forms existed, barely distinguishable from each other. Fast forward a … Continue reading The False Narrative of Conflict
Beyond The Petri Dish: Human Consciousness in the Time of Collapse, Apathy and Algorithms We are experiencing an era of unprecedented cognitive dissonance. Despite incredible advances in our capacity to access information and “truth”, we have reached a terrifying all-time high for apathy. The planet’s existential-level catastrophe is systematically edited out of the news, even … Continue reading (Psssst…I have a NEW BOOK out)
The Thing is getting much more than us out of this human / machine partnership deal. It is getting the most precious commodity: data. It is beginning to own us, and our only planet. We have relinquished control over who buys our data, how much they pay for it, and what they do with it. … Continue reading Dawn of the Algorithmocracy
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
Every slave master miscalculates the physical breaking point of their slaves, assuming that they will have an infinite tolerance for abuse. In an equally abusive necroeconomy, our biological limits are being exceeded by a system which tries to get as much out of us as it can. But there are physical thresholds. When these are … Continue reading Revolting in the Body and Mind
Some of the greatest minds in humans were actually not very “intelligent”. They didn’t have impressive, fast computation powers. They didn’t have talents they could showcase in a circus. They had no noteworthy leadership, communication or self-management skills. And they certainly were not “aggressively driven”. But they were awake, more awake than few humans had … Continue reading The Infinity State
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
George Tsakraklides 