Where do thoughts go when they die? They end up in our dreams, where they randomly mix with other thoughts, people, places and objects and become actors in bizarre, almost surreal situations. At best, our dreams are the equivalent of “AI slop”: an opportunity for our brain to hallucinate in the safe space of deep sleep. Scientists still … Continue reading When Dreams Leak Into Reality
One of the biggest self-delusions of civilisation was the belief that it could one day become a self-contained, self-sustained, and self-sufficient environment for humans to inhabit. Human cities were designed to cater to the optical illusion of abundance of food and shelter, when in fact, they represent the most precarious and fragile environments to live in: … Continue reading The Fishbowl Effect
The world keeps going about its daily business like a zombie pretending it hasn’t burned out yet. But as it whispers to itself through the flames “this is fine”, the corrosive fumes of an industrial civilisation undergoing autophagy become potent hallucinogens. “This is fine” soon becomes “this is normal”. Whoever thought, one could get so tripped out on … Continue reading The Long Flatline: In a Selfish Society, do “Systems” Actually Exist?
2 million years ago, an ancient but equally destructive version of the data centre evolved on the planet, and began to consume resources at an incredible, unstoppable, and unsustainable speed: it was the time when the human brain began to experience an almost sudden, incredible expansion in size, giving rise to the First Intelligence Revolution. This … Continue reading The Second Intelligence Revolution: Distant Learnings from Ancient Data Centres
Whenever there is a collapse, society has two choices: in the first scenario, powerful individuals grab as big a slice as they can from a rapidly diminishing pie and make a run for it in their golden parachutes. In the second scenario, societies come together and try to distribute the pie as calmly, fairly, and … Continue reading The Collapse Hierarchy of Needs
This system still wants us to buy houses, own cars, and pay our electric bills, but it is taking our jobs away. I’m a Gen Xer in my 50s feeling almost as fucked as Gen Z by a system that refuses to hire tenured professionals as much as it willingly cancels entry-level graduate jobs, condemning … Continue reading The Spurned Generation
RELEASING: 27 May 2026 KINDLE PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOW One of the biggest misconceptions about collapse is that it only concerns the future or present, when in fact, human history is defined as much by its periods of growth as it is by a long list of frequent, spectacular collapse events. Whilst the symptoms of collapse … Continue reading BOOK LAUNCH: The Biology of Collapse
Every oligarch is a tumour growing at the expense of surrounding healthy tissue: the humans and other organisms making up the ecosystem. While normal cells follow a strict path of growth for only a set number of generations, tumour cells never stop multiplying, hoarding resources in the process. This is why capitalism is inherently carcinogenic: … Continue reading The Dogma of the Cancer Cell
Although most species are territorial only within their specific niche, humans have taken territoriality to planetary level. The creation of the concept of entitlement – to food, territory, and even other humans - was our attempt to rewrite ecosystem etiquette by inventing yet another moral licence for aggression. By proclaiming our unlimited entitlement to resources, … Continue reading How Extinction Was Legalised
Just as the 2026 World Adaptation Forum in Budapest was coming to an end, silence was already beginning to rewild the space we had all desperately tried to fill with our voices, structured presentations, and conversations. Overloaded with three days of caffeine and overwhelmed by a cacophony of intellectual stimulants, I dedicated my last day … Continue reading The Power of Natural Chaos
