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
All power corrupts, brain power being no exception to this. The tremendous competitive advantages of the human brain would undoubtedly lead to arrogance, as we became increasingly adept at using our brain less as a reasoning device, and more as a weapon of mass destruction. The effectiveness and speed of what we could do was … Continue reading Problem-Solving Savages at the Edge of Extinction
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 Beyond The Petri Dish: The Infinity State
As filler humans, we are entering a new slavery situation where our master is not even human. We can’t see them because they don’t have a face, and we can’t attack them because they are virtually everywhere. For a species who invented the concept of personal ownership, it was very ironic yet at the same … Continue reading Human Pets of the Consumaverse
A successful business is one which can create more of itself, regardless of cost to humans or the planet. Unless it has aggressive plans to expand, a business today should have little reason to exist. This dogma of expansion now pervades all economic activity: businesses must collaborate with the Unhappiness Machine of marketing, religion, the … Continue reading When Profit Grows a Brain: the rise of sentient necrocapitalism
It is ironic but not at all surprising that, for a civilisation which prides itself in having taken care of its most basic needs a very long time ago, its demise will come down to the one, most basic thermodynamic need which is common to all organisms, regardless of level of intelligence: Food. Civilisations … Continue reading Food and Life: the Double Disappearing Act
This civilisation has learned to survive by extraction, exploitation and extinction. It is the teenager walking up to the fridge, taking whatever they need without ever wondering who went grocery shopping, how much it cost, and who paid the electric bill. This lazy formula of existence has been so easy and straightforward, so successful and … Continue reading The Civilisational Lie
Follow the link to listen to my talk with the brilliant Alex Smith from Radio Ecoshock https://www.ecoshock.org/2024/01/spectacle-necrocapitalism-methane.html
All civilisations eventually reach the point where they fail to keep track of all that they have created. They become blind to their past, cut off from any memory of their beginnings, like traumatised orphans who never met their real parents or, smartphone users with no knowledge of how a smartphone is made, or what … Continue reading A New Spiritual Geography: The Revenge of The Landfills
(excerpt from In The Grip of Necrocapitalism) ...our psychonomy has tried to normalize this narrative of conflict and superiority as much as possible, and undoubtedly influenced how science works: reducing most scientists to butterfly collectors who study individual species in complete isolation - leaving the study of the most important aspect, the relationships between these … Continue reading The Corruption of Science
George Tsakraklides 