When universities bowed down to the junta many people were shocked, but I wasn’t one of them. Perhaps it was because after spending 11 years in US academia, I had already noticed a disturbing trend: education transforming itself from a vital social function to an industry with its own fast-moving consumer goods, brainwashed customers, greedy … Continue reading The Curiosity Crisis: Why Universities Became Brothels
This newsletter is my main income. It is FREE to subscribe to, but made possible by the generosity of paid members. If you’d like to support my work please consider a paid subscription. Thank you. As societies grew into increasingly complex economies, the need for specialised skills gave rise to specialised humans. Each successive era … Continue reading Laboured To Extinction: How We Became the Planet of the Working Zombies
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
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
George Tsakraklides 