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
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
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
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 every pre-collapse dystopia there are three types of people: those who represent and curate it, those who have sided with it, and those who detest it. Parasites. Main driver: profit acceleration The first group needs no introduction. It represents the classic self-centred human, typically exemplified by the ruthless accelerationism of “destroy-now-pay-later” suicide economics of … Continue reading How to Survive a Pre-Collapse Dystopia: a Conceptual Segmentation
Conflict, genocide and ecocide have always relied on supremacist rhetoric. The reason we have failed to root-out prejudice, speciesism and discrimination is because supremacy, in all its incarnations, is a boundless economic powerhouse. Supremacy narratives facilitated the creation of false hierarchies which propped up power structures and enabled the worst of capitalism: black vs. white, … Continue reading Supremacy In the Mirror World
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
We are paying a hefty price for having confused capitalism with democracy. This is most typically true in the West, where unregulated markets and an infinite choice of products have created this perfect optical illusion of freedom. But free markets and an infinity of products facilitate neither free speech nor free ideas. Free ideas are … Continue reading The Great Illusion of Freedom. Surely This Must Be a Democracy?
cont'd from Part 1 ...Killing the Thing of course suggests the collapse of many, but maybe not all, of the edifices of our civilization it depends upon. But very few admit this dark truth publicly. This is why, for every pragmatic and honest book on this subject matter, there are twenty more utopian, “hopeful” ones … Continue reading In The Grip of Necrocapitalism (Part 2)
Evolution has come a long way, perhaps longer than we thought. We would like to believe that we, humans, represent the forefront of evolution on Earth. But there are arguably other forms of existence which supersede us, including some which precede us. The most terrifying life form on the planet is our own economic system: … Continue reading The Thing: It Is Alive and Intelligent
George Tsakraklides 