American Chaos: The Oligarchy’s Plan to do The Unimaginable

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Amid increasing speculation that America’s oligarchs may be attempting to crash the economy on purpose, it is important to remember that the global economic system was made to crash in the first place, whether intentionally, or not.  Capitalism is by definition a self-destructive force which maximizes profit through rapid resource destruction, chaos and inequality.  In … Continue reading American Chaos: The Oligarchy’s Plan to do The Unimaginable

Fuck Around and Find Out: The Politics of Hate 

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A key pathology common among far-right voters is that they fundamentally believe that a society where every single person thrives cannot exist.  There is a strong sense by these voters that there is only enough wealth to go around for a small segment of society, therefore someone else’s life has to be destroyed for them … Continue reading Fuck Around and Find Out: The Politics of Hate 

The Consumatronic Theme Park

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Necrocapitalism hides its agenda behind the most colourful, mesmerizing shopfront, an endless theme park of consumerism our physical senses have zero chance of resisting: they succumb to the lights, the smells, the sounds and promises.  Consumption becomes the intravenous narcotic numbing the pain of living in a sick society:  the rent we struggle to pay, … Continue reading The Consumatronic Theme Park

Invisible Dystopias

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A dystopia is what happens to a civilisation when it has stopped paying attention to reality.  Then again, when were civilisations ever self-aware?   However real the climate crisis may get, escapism into the Mind Prison will always get the better out of humans.  By the time thousands perish daily, there will be too much hunger, … Continue reading Invisible Dystopias

The Human Necrocapital

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In the same way it consumed natural resources to exhaustion, capitalism turned each human into a disposable pair of hands.   All the crimes humanity perpetrated on this planet, it has also perpetrated on itself: destruction, extinction and exploitation are not side effects but essential elements of this civilisation’s operating system.  We live in a … Continue reading The Human Necrocapital

A Human Imposter

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We have every reason to wish to dismantle an economic system which has become an existential threat to both humans and the planet.  Any economic system which sees nature and human rights as threats to its bottom line is ultimately a threat to nature, humans and itself.  Necrocapitalism has no loyalties, alliances, feelings or even … Continue reading A Human Imposter

The Unbearable Lightness of Entertainment

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Entertainment has become indispensable to the necrosystem both as a distraction and a buffer against truth.  Making light of disasters is the most effective way to normalise crises and deflect from any serious conversation attempting to zoom in on culprits.  Fortunately for the ruling classes, people desperate for distraction love to be entertained and it … Continue reading The Unbearable Lightness of Entertainment

In The Age of Infinite Consumer Choice, The Only Choice is Collapse

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I was asked during an interview by an American institution what choices do we have in the current environment: Trump, fascism, etc.  As a determinist, I don't believe choice exists.  It doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for choice, but the chances of avoiding the inevitable demise of humans are slim to none.  The US political … Continue reading In The Age of Infinite Consumer Choice, The Only Choice is Collapse

The Consumatronic Dystopia

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Our economic system has preyed upon our survival instincts to turn us into insecure consumatrons.  The more we define ourselves by what we own, the more this system owns us.  We have come to a point in our history where our sense of self-worth is drawn not from self-respect, but from our level of access … Continue reading The Consumatronic Dystopia

The Extinction Tariff

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The economic war between US and Canada, Mexico or China is only the fine script in the much wider economic war taking place between a bankrupt humanity on one hand, and an equally bankrupt Earth on the other.  The real war of tariffs is taking place between two much less known economies: the human Ponzi … Continue reading The Extinction Tariff