The problem with civilisation is that it is simply self-destructive: driven by profit and efficiency alone, self-programmed to implode by following a predictable recipe of maximum death/maximum profit economics. This monstrous progeny of our greed now runs the planet. It operates not on dreams, laughter, feelings, creativity, love, compassion or any of our best human … Continue reading All Roads Lead to Self-Destruction
When I warned years ago that the climate crisis would be completely forgotten in a few years, I was ignored like some type of attention-seeking “boy cried wolf” conspiracist. But I meant what I said. And I still mean it, and events prove me right. Just look around, even the worst-case scenario didn’t look this … Continue reading Overshoot Deficit Disorder
I was asked during an interview by an American institution what choices do we have in the current environment: Trump, fascism, etc. As a determinist, I don't believe choice exists. It doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for choice, but the chances of avoiding the inevitable demise of humans are slim to none. The US political … Continue reading In The Age of Infinite Consumer Choice, The Only Choice is Collapse
Our naturally dismissive attitude towards impending disasters is woven into the geological history of this planet. Our brain did not evolve in the midst of catastrophes, but during one of the most climatically stable and abundant times in Earth’s history. Resources were infinitely plentiful in relation to our consumption, and the climate remained stable enough … Continue reading A Brain from Another Time
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
All growth leads to overshoot and the collapse of civilisations. Any species overgrowing all others eventually suffers termination-level resource deficits both from the ecosystem (prey, raw materials) and the physical environment (habitable space, water, etc). Humans crossed their survivability threshold thousands of years ago and have been sustained by completely artificial means ever since: intensive … Continue reading Beyond Growth: Journey to Gaia 1
All wars, conflicts, genocides and ecocides have originated in supremacy. Our civilisation has never been able to root out prejudice, speciesism or discrimination because supremacy, of all shapes and sizes, is a formidable economic powerhouse. Supremacy narratives facilitated the creation of false hierarchies which propped up power structures and enabled the worst of capitalism: black … Continue reading The New Relentless Global Threat of Supremacy
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
As the psychonomy expanded, the planet suffered the tragic consequences of humans effectively domesticating themselves within their own prison, while at the same time outsourcing their civilisation to The Thing: an economic management authority hungry for sales data and tasked with breeding generation after generation of increasingly estranged, brainwashed and unhealthy human cattle. Most of … Continue reading Generations of Ecological Estrangement
As ancient as it is, and however many centuries it may have lasted, this unsustainable economic system was always destined to destroy itself. The narratives of our Civilisational Lie may have normalised unsustainable growth and unsustainable population, but what we, humans, consider “normal” is an impossible fantasy of our imagination. The laws of physics disagree … Continue reading The Argument for Assisted Collapse
George Tsakraklides 