When children build castles in the sand, they always like to destroy them in the end. It is a moment of profound psychological catharsis: they are teaching themselves to laugh at loss. But it is also an action of tyrannic control: destruction can be an incredible indulgence. No one is sure how, and why, Nero … Continue reading Why Technobroligarchs Burn Their Own Castles: The Illusion of Control
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
If you want to encourage my voice, please support my work by becoming a paid subscriber to this newsletter so that it can continue. I have minimal overheads, no sponsors I sell myself to, bosses who tell me what to write (or NOT write), or staff I have to pay. I’m here for you, raw … Continue reading A Brief History of the Dopamine Dystopia: Social Media, AI and Frankenpolitics Laboratories
As the tariffs begin to bite, there is so much that we, ordinary consumers, can do to both survive a world of impossibly inflated prices, as well as teach the brands who stole our democracy and social benefits a big lesson. This is not just about Elon. Because behind each of your favourite products there … Continue reading Resisting the Oligarchy means Resisting the World’s Biggest Brands
As the US becomes an authoritarian dictatorship wielding all instruments of fear it possibly can, reports in mainstream news networks have begun flooding in of tourists with valid US visas being detained for lengthy periods for no valid reason: Lucas from Germany, 16 days detention Jasmine from Canada, 12 days detention And this: French scientist … Continue reading The Economics of Incarceration: Detention Capitalism Is Here, No One Is Safe.
The worst enemy of truth is half-truth. Decades of programming have overloaded us to the point where we only pay attention to headlines, not the facts (or absence thereof) behind them. The consumatronic farm has bred any curiosity out of modern humans and replaced it with apathy on steroids. As truth becomes diluted by a … Continue reading Media In the Post-Reality World
As the oligarchy’s plan to deliberately destroy American society materialises, and the reasons why they do this become clear, what remains unclear is what the opposition plans to do: absolutely nothing. People are already reminiscing the days of “democracy”, as if things used to be perfect. But it was that “perfect” democracy which laid out … Continue reading American Democracy: A Primer
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
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 escalating financial cost of the climate crisis is beginning to bankrupt US disaster aid agencies while putting the final nails in the coffin of the already collapsing home insurance industry. Approaching $300 billion and counting, the LA inferno has already become the costliest US disaster, beating Hurricane Katrina by $100 billion. With an increasingly … Continue reading City of The Burning Angels: A Prequel to Civilisational Collapse
