Sickness and death have become much bigger money-makers for the economy than the provision of health coverage to citizens. Good health coverage requires available doctors, affordable medicines and capable hospitals, all of which cost the government money it doesn’t want to spend. You see, governments in America function like businesses, not governments. They won’t invest … Continue reading American Deathcare: The Short Story
Scarcity is our natural mental state, but this all changed once industrial civilisation handed everything to us on a silver platter. In fact, we are happiest when resources are in short supply. Anthropologists and volunteers in third world countries never fail to mention how some of the biggest, widest, longest-lasting smiles they’ve ever witnessed were … Continue reading The Happiness Trap: How Humans Became Terrified of Scarcity
Our powerful, charismatic brain is not designed for long-term planning and projecting. Its impressive capacity to solve problems is at its peak only when these problems are present right here, right now. From a survival point of view, the “right here right now” is much more important than 10 years from now, or even 10 … Continue reading The longest 10 minutes of your life have just begun
Genuine forms of happiness have been exchanged for counterfeit versions originating in the world of machines: goods owned, GDP units earned, number of holidays left. Happiness is being measured in numbers and quantities instead of moments and feelings. Of all human generations who have lived before us, we are the least capable of answering the … Continue reading Happiness In the Machine Age
While humans achieved impressive technological accomplishments inside their busy cities, they had failed to equally develop all parts of themselves. If anything, over centuries they devolved into a species with a lost identity, meaning or purpose, core elements of the psyche that were neglected and sidelined by the whiplash of technological “progress”. These huge widening … Continue reading The Loneliness of a Dying Parasite
Those aged up to 27 and who are currently approaching adulthood, are growing up in the most frightening, daunting version of this world humanity has ever seen. Everything is stacked up against them. Injured by two global financial crises, mentally and physically damaged by pandemics and wars, and knowing they are growing up in a … Continue reading Collapse Report: The Gen Z Revolt Is Here
George Tsakraklides 