How Christianity Committed the Ultimate Eco-Blasphemy

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Desperate to denounce their mortality, humans always found refuge in some of the most ludicrous supremacy hallucinations. The majority of these fantasies, which soon morphed into organised religions, usually concurred that humans had appeared suddenly, spontaneously, and independently from everything else, and that quite possibly they were not even originally from Earth - yet somehow … Continue reading How Christianity Committed the Ultimate Eco-Blasphemy

Conversations with the Afterlife: The Cursed Garden

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When I first started gardening, I made one of the most common beginner errors: mistakenly thinking that gardening was all about taking care of plants. It seemed like a perfectly logical assumption at the time, one which however would prove no less than catastrophic just a few months on, as I watched the plant death … Continue reading Conversations with the Afterlife: The Cursed Garden

How The World Ends

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When a society is hijacked by parasites, it is only a matter of time before it breaks down. The oligarchs are running the show and have turned governments from governing entities to machines of wealth transfer from the 99% to the 1%. As Americans move into their cars in their millions, and college graduates move in back … Continue reading How The World Ends

Transformation Through Collapse: The Parable of The Burning Forest

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Civilisations and ecosystems are virtually indistinguishable from each other at times of existential stress: the same laws of scarcity and competition which decimate an ecosystem’s food chain are behind the collapse of a human currency chain. In any interconnected system, whether this is a human society or an ecosystem, the weight of collapse bears down … Continue reading Transformation Through Collapse: The Parable of The Burning Forest

End-Stage Necrocapitalism: Fumbling Towards The Exit

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Societies were formed not to evolve, but to obey, and what we tend to affectionately call “social evolution” was merely the aftermath of succumbing, and then adapting to, ever changing forms of oppression. Much like farm animals on growth hormones, humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a … Continue reading End-Stage Necrocapitalism: Fumbling Towards The Exit

Civilisational Collapse: Your Questions Answered

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Thank you all for your enthusiastic response to the Q&A invitation (on substack). I was expecting a mixed bag of random queries, but a very clear theme of topics emerged, which in a way made my response easier. I present my answers to you below along with any relevant links. Where questions have been grouped … Continue reading Civilisational Collapse: Your Questions Answered

How They Killed Reality

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Today’s epidemic of authoritarianism is the consequence of a society that long ago embraced the values of necrocapitalist imperialism: ruthless profit, heartlessness, manipulation, and pure, unadulterated sadism toward the most vulnerable. In an increasingly remote-operated world, attributing responsibility is becoming near impossible: tyrants and oligarchs can safely hide behind layers of code, while the rest of … Continue reading How They Killed Reality

A 400-Word History of Capitalism

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Humans were not corrupted by capitalism. They created it because they were corrupt in the first place. Capitalism has been accused of creating today’s selfishness, individualism and narcissism, but these vices pre-existed. Capitalism merely came along to monetize them. Greed was there from the start. Capitalism was the app that codified, amplified, digitized and weaponized it. It … Continue reading A 400-Word History of Capitalism

Designed For Extinction: Why Humans Developed the Wrong Type of Intelligence

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Contrary to what our impressive technological milestones suggest, we have never been in charge of our fate. Like any organism striving to maximize its chances of survival, our choices were blindly driven by expansion: economic growth, domination, population increase - whatever it took, whatever the cost to us or the planet. From our humble beginnings as monocellular life … Continue reading Designed For Extinction: Why Humans Developed the Wrong Type of Intelligence

Oh Say, Can You See, We Have Never Been Free

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How The Freest Slaves In The World Got Duped The best moment to rob someone of their freedom is when they have taken it all for granted; or better yet, when they have forgotten what freedom was in the first place. This is precisely what has happened to Americans over the past century: consumerism replaced … Continue reading Oh Say, Can You See, We Have Never Been Free