When I was a kid, my parents bought me an illustrated guide to Greek wildflowers. Along with extensive botanical descriptions, there were images of flowers in their natural settings taken by wildflower enthusiasts over the years. Below each blowout image there was the usual information: where the plant may be found, what time of the … Continue reading The Global Voodoo Doll
The Birth of Cakeconomics Whenever I order a piece of cake at a restaurant, I always wonder how many more pieces of cake there are back in the kitchen. Not because I’m greedy but because I’m fascinated by how, from a logistics point of view, the restaurant manages to achieve that perfect goldilocks balance between … Continue reading The Birth of Cakeconomics
(continued) ...For the teenagers, everything outside of the city was nothing but a cheap resource to be exploited, and their arrogance grew day by day as they descended into a spiral of addiction and mental illness, often exacerbated by the city itself. Instead of abandoning their concrete fortress and returning to the village, they would … Continue reading Psychonomic Civilisations
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
Reaching the Infinity State for the very first time can be a daunting experience: by connecting to the universe’s neuralink one suddenly becomes a mirror for the vastness, reflecting anything and everything, both good and bad, including all the joy and all the pain that has ever existed. For a moment the Vastness turns the … Continue reading Transcending The Ego: The Difficult Awakening Into Responsibility
Global industrial civilisation was built to cater to human needs: more comfort, more laughter, more love. But it lacked the “heart” to understand these intrinsically human, largely emotional needs. It was much easier for us to focus on creating this civilisation initially as a machine of efficiency, hoping that emotions, “humanity”, would eventually come in … Continue reading The Consumatronic State and the Illusion of Happiness
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
A successful business is one which can create more of itself, regardless of cost to humans or the planet. Unless it has aggressive plans to expand, a business today should have little reason to exist. This dogma of expansion now pervades all economic activity: businesses must collaborate with the Unhappiness Machine of marketing, religion, the … Continue reading When Profit Grows a Brain: the rise of sentient necrocapitalism
This civilisation has learned to survive by extraction, exploitation and extinction. It is the teenager walking up to the fridge, taking whatever they need without ever wondering who went grocery shopping, how much it cost, and who paid the electric bill. This lazy formula of existence has been so easy and straightforward, so successful and … Continue reading The Civilisational Lie
Follow the link to listen to my talk with the brilliant Alex Smith from Radio Ecoshock https://www.ecoshock.org/2024/01/spectacle-necrocapitalism-methane.html
