Societies were formed not to evolve, but to obey, and what we tend to affectionately call “social evolution” was merely the aftermath of succumbing, and then adapting to, ever changing forms of oppression. Much like farm animals on growth hormones, humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a … Continue reading End-Stage Necrocapitalism: Fumbling Towards The Exit
Thank you all for your enthusiastic response to the Q&A invitation (on substack). I was expecting a mixed bag of random queries, but a very clear theme of topics emerged, which in a way made my response easier. I present my answers to you below along with any relevant links. Where questions have been grouped … Continue reading Civilisational Collapse: Your Questions Answered
Today’s epidemic of authoritarianism is the consequence of a society that long ago embraced the values of necrocapitalist imperialism: ruthless profit, heartlessness, manipulation, and pure, unadulterated sadism toward the most vulnerable. In an increasingly remote-operated world, attributing responsibility is becoming near impossible: tyrants and oligarchs can safely hide behind layers of code, while the rest of … Continue reading How They Killed Reality
Buddhists often talk about something that sounds counter-intuitive but is actually most profound: “The mind is a prison”. According to this concept, all of us can become consumed by our own thoughts to the point where we become hijacked, ceasing to pay attention to real events and stimuli from our physical environment. We begin to … Continue reading The Dream That Humanity Is Unable To Wake Up From
Global industrial society may have successfully catered to the primal impulses of food, comfort and ownership, but it would end up blatantly neglecting humanity’s most basic emotional needs. When we created this civilisation, we somehow thought that if we solved issues of scarcity, efficiency and comfort, everything else would fall into place. We thought we were … Continue reading Lost in Consumption: The Age of the Consumatronic Zombie
Buddhists often talk about something that sounds counter-intuitive but is actually most profound: “The mind is a prison”. According to this concept, all of us can become consumed by our own thoughts to the point where we become hijacked, ceasing to pay attention to real events and stimuli from our physical environment. We begin to … Continue reading The Dream That Humanity Is Unable To Wake Up From
Humans suffer from the perversion of perfectionism, which leads to insecurity, greed, selfishness, jealousy and conflict. But our nature is to be imperfect. In fact, all of nature is imperfect. Yet it continues, it survives, without ever looking back or looking down. All that matters is now. Humanity has been torturing itself since its very … Continue reading On Intelligence
Manufactured narratives of conflict and supremacy pervade every aspect of human civilisation, even the very areas tasked specifically with questioning, challenging and reframing toxic narratives we created over the millennia. The so-called vanguards of human thought, objectivity and innovation have never been truly objective. Scientific disciplines may have invented new technologies and uncovered new knowledge, … Continue reading How Human Supremacy Killed the Search For Knowledge
All power corrupts, brain power being no exception to this. At some point in our evolution, the human brain became huge. The tremendous competitive advantages of such a brain would unavoidably lead us to arrogance, as we became increasingly masterful at using this brain less as a reasoning device, and more as a weapon of … Continue reading Problem-Solving Savages at the Edge of Extinction
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
George Tsakraklides 