As ancient as it is, and however many centuries it may have lasted, this unsustainable economic system was always destined to destroy itself. The narratives of our Civilisational Lie may have normalised unsustainable growth and unsustainable population, but what we, humans, consider “normal” is an impossible fantasy of our imagination. The laws of physics disagree … Continue reading The Argument for Assisted Collapse
For young humans, everything outside the city was nothing but a cheap resource to exploit. Their arrogance grew day by day as they entered a downward spiral of addiction and mental illness exacerbated by the city itself. Instead of abandoning their concrete fortress and returning to the village, they would choose to stay here in … Continue reading Necrocapitalism 101: The Birth of The Urban Psychonomy
(from Wicked7.org) You have said that your latest work – Frankenpolitics – points fingers – who for what are you holding responsible for the mess we’re in? Those who have purchased politics and democracy, and those in power who allowed themselves to be purchased. At this point both entities, that is, money and power, are behaving … Continue reading Frankenpolitics: An Interview With George Tsakraklides
Educational institutions the world over are keeping up pretences, trying to lure students with the false promise of a career which won’t exist on a collapsing planet. Academia after all, is no different than Business as Usual. Since education became a business, universities are only interested in taking your cash. Students graduate with a mountain … Continue reading Anthropocene University – Spring Registration for Classes Now Open
A lesson which humans have yet to learn from nature is to let go of self-destructive desires. Each autumn across the north and south hemispheres, deciduous trees let go of trillions of leaves. In doing so, they ensure their survival for another year. Had they attempted to hold on to those leaves, the trees would … Continue reading Degrowth: The Wisdom of Letting Go
If there was ever a worst-case scenario of climate crisis acceleration and descent into an apocalyptic world, look no further than current reality. That scenario is playing right now. Humanity is a sinking ship under mutiny: all sailors are fighting with each other to become captain, literally as they die. The direction this civilisation has … Continue reading The Great Silence of The Human Lambs
The result of the American election exemplifies a pattern witnessed multiple times throughout the history of human civilisation. A hungry and angry electorate will always imagine witches they need to burn and fascist saviours they desperately want to believe. But this need for modern-day witches and false saviours reached a flashpoint in recent years, as … Continue reading When Hunger Turns to Hate, And Global Capital Cashes In On The Spectacle (Yet Again): The Tsakraklides View on the US Election.
Germany, the world’s third largest economy, is spearheading the collapse of global industrial civilisation as its GDP is set to continue its contraction into next year with no end in sight. This comes as no surprise given that Germany is the poster child for the most resource-intensive and old-fashioned industrial production model in operation: a … Continue reading The Collapse Report: Food Is Set to Become the New Automobile in a Collapsing Industrial Civilisation
The very first thing which happens to a garden when it becomes abandoned is the sudden death of the most greedy, hybridized and mispositioned exotic ornamental plants. Having been bred to only survive in industrial greenhouses under the control of precise environmental management systems, these specimens wither away within days or weeks. Their culling is … Continue reading Rewilded: Free-Range Humans in the Post-Anthropocene
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
George Tsakraklides 