When a society is hijacked by parasites, it is only a matter of time before it breaks down. The oligarchs are running the show and have turned governments from governing entities to machines of wealth transfer from the 99% to the 1%. As Americans move into their cars in their millions, and college graduates move in back … Continue reading How The World Ends
As Iceland becomes the 5th country to withdraw from the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, the annual music festival which is Europe’s biggest cultural event and one of the world’s most watched, news coverage fails to scratch below the surface on what this means beyond Eurovision, beyond TV, beyond even politics. What is happening to Europe’s biggest cultural … Continue reading The Dark Lesson of Eurovision 2026 No One Talks About
Sickness and death have become much bigger money-makers for the economy than the provision of health coverage to citizens. Good health coverage requires available doctors, affordable medicines and capable hospitals, all of which cost the government money it doesn’t want to spend. You see, governments in America function like businesses, not governments. They won’t invest … Continue reading American Deathcare: The Short Story
I normally don’t expect a nature hike in the clean suburban air of my beach town to turn into a back-to-the future, post-apocalyptic excursion into the remnants of an extinct society. But hey ho, after we had climbed up the hill, enjoyed spectacular views and traversed a forest that was literally dying for a drink of October … Continue reading They Came. They Danced. They Went Extinct
Humans were not corrupted by capitalism. They created it because they were corrupt in the first place. Capitalism has been accused of creating today’s selfishness, individualism and narcissism, but these vices pre-existed. Capitalism merely came along to monetize them. Greed was there from the start. Capitalism was the app that codified, amplified, digitized and weaponized it. It … Continue reading A 400-Word History of Capitalism
125 million years ago an exceptionally long, baking hot summer began to sweep through the Celestial Mountain in the Tien Shan alpine range spanning modern-day Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. The scorching conditions on the desiccated slopes of the mountain left little room for survival for the great majority of organisms, and the freezing … Continue reading Meditative Degrowth: Sometimes The Smartest Act of Defiance Is To Stay Still
After Gaza, it is anyone’s guess where the next Holocaust will be or which exact form it takes. But make no mistake: imprisoning and blackmailing people behind fences has always been a huge moneymaker for the capitalist amoeboid. Sometimes the fence is invisible but trust me, it’s there. We are all shoved into concentration camps … Continue reading After The Genocide: The Global Youth Intifada
How The Freest Slaves In The World Got Duped The best moment to rob someone of their freedom is when they have taken it all for granted; or better yet, when they have forgotten what freedom was in the first place. This is precisely what has happened to Americans over the past century: consumerism replaced … Continue reading Oh Say, Can You See, We Have Never Been Free
Science has become a tool for validating existing dogmas rather than querying them out of existence. As universities bend the knee to their oligarch sponsors, we are depriving ourselves of the one quality we used to take pride in: the ability to think, search, discover. Educational institutions long ago became sterile, inward-looking businesses more concerned with their … Continue reading Pumpkinomics: Why It Is Better Than Economics
Time is never kind to someone who can only pretend to save themselves. As humans continue to throw smoke and mirrors at the fireball of overshoot, all they can expect back is extinction. If there was ever a chance of keeping this planet habitable it wouldn't be through renewables, but through tackling the worst type … Continue reading Replacement Economics: The Scam That Saved Capitalism
George Tsakraklides 