The number of people working because it gives them meaning as opposed to simply paying for their now unaffordable rent, mortgage or dependents, has reached peak low. As for the number of people whose work agrees with their deeper ethics, values and beliefs, it is close to zero. The first lesson we learn as we … Continue reading Caution: Work Is Approaching Peak Bullshit
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
Fascism will take away our freedoms, but our freedoms were limited to begin with. In fact, they were illusions of freedom. Because we were served an illusion of choice, and when it comes to voting choice for that matter, an illusion of democracy itself. Whether Kamala or Trump had won, this world would have gone … Continue reading Fascism and Capitalism. A Short Reference Guide on How the Two (Don’t) Differ
We live in a collapsing civilisation stepping into a cliff with its eyes closed. Fascist hate-stirrers promise to magically extinguish inflation while ignoring what is actually causing it: a climate crisis with a lethal magic trick of its own: not only will food become expensive beyond belief. It will vanish, as the audience suddenly realise … Continue reading It Is Time We Educate Children About The Coming Collapse
The silence was horrifying as we walked amongst huge ancient rows of beech trees bathed in autumnal sunlight. Everything was so quiet that it felt almost unreal, like we had been dropped inside a postcard frozen in time and given permission to walk about for a bit before it all came back to life. The … Continue reading The Extinction Report: Journey To a Disappearing Ecosystem
In its futile quest for the ultimate delusion of immortality, humanity always sought to convince itself of the most vivid supremacy fantasy: that humans are not from Earth. The industrial revolution, the look and feel of our modern cities, our cars, our houses, were all shaped to subconsciously convince us that we are not even … Continue reading The Supremacy Sci-Fi of Human Civilisation: From Caves to Spaceships and Back to Caves
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
Every criminal can walk out of prison free if they manage to incriminate the prosecution. Global capital is a gangster who gets away with murder every single time, by implicating us into its crimes. As consumatrons we are wholly dependent on the criminal necrosystem of the human Ponzi economy. We are accomplices who are bribed … Continue reading Collective Incrimination: How Global Capital Gets Away With Everything
Listen to my new interview at Alex Smith's Ecoshock Radio about my latest book and more. Alex asks me about some of the main concepts in the book, chapter by chapter. And here is the previous interview from last January George is an author, researcher, molecular biologist and food scientist. You can follow him on … Continue reading Beyond The Petri Dish (Audio)
The idea that a small group of individuals can form a “government” representing the best interests of its people has been one of the most disastrous leaps of faith humanity ever took. Arguably, as our societies grew, we had no choice but to form these governments. Although transferring power and authority from the masses to … Continue reading How Government Became a Hiding Place for Capital
