Long-Range Sudden Systemic Extinction (LRSSE): Why This Time Will Be Different

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This planet may have witnessed five major previous extinction events, but it has never been boiled before this fast, this much, for this long. A combination of ecological destruction, pollution, and the expected culmination of the climate crisis over the coming hundreds of years, constitute Earth's first ever long-range sudden systemic extinction (LRSSE) event. A … Continue reading Long-Range Sudden Systemic Extinction (LRSSE): Why This Time Will Be Different

Systemic Terrorism and The Illusion of Democracy

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The most effective way to undermine a democracy today is to purchase it and force each citizen to buy a share in it.  In one step you have seized power and eliminated all potential opposition.  This is not a new political system. Rather, it is the end of politics altogether. Power today has been transferred … Continue reading Systemic Terrorism and The Illusion of Democracy

Fossilised Economies

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It is ironic that a species so obsessed with the future would base its entire civilisation on the fossilised remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. Our daily existence relies upon the burning of ancient corpses that died hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans even appeared, and this serves … Continue reading Fossilised Economies

Rogue Currencies

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From space, our planet looks like an ever-changing marble. To an alien civilisation, the massive white storm clouds constantly shifting above oceans and landmasses would have probably suggested that this is one messy, stormy, unstable and unwelcoming environment; perhaps one which is on the verge of implosion under all this turmoil. While this may have … Continue reading Rogue Currencies

The Global Voodoo Doll

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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 False Narrative of Conflict

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Evolving Into One 3.5 billion years ago, life began to emerge on Earth. A single, lonely cell, the ancestor which we share with every other life form on the planet, began to diverge into unique individual species.  At first, only a handful of fragile life forms existed, barely distinguishable from each other.  Fast forward a … Continue reading The False Narrative of Conflict

The Birth of Cakeconomics

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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

Hallucinating Parasites and the War on Physics

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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

Problem-Solving Savages at the Edge of Extinction

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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

The Infinity State

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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