Capitalism Doesn’t Want You To Survive What’s Coming

Any species subscribing to narratives of its supremacy over other species will sooner or later fall prey to identical narratives within its own society.  It was unavoidable therefore that the myth of human supremacy would be cloned and reproduced across social strata: racial supremacy, income supremacy, cultural, gender and straight supremacy are mere versions of … Continue reading Capitalism Doesn’t Want You To Survive What’s Coming

Laboured To Extinction: How We Became the Planet of the Working Zombies

This newsletter is my main income. It is FREE to subscribe to, but made possible by the generosity of paid members. If you’d like to support my work please consider a paid subscription. Thank you. As societies grew into increasingly complex economies, the need for specialised skills gave rise to specialised humans.  Each successive era … Continue reading Laboured To Extinction: How We Became the Planet of the Working Zombies

Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilisational Collapse

This newsletter is my main income. It is free to subscribe, but thank you to everyone who paid to support my work Global capital has deceived billions who cared about the planet by selling them “green solutions” that are anything but green, simply by virtue of the fact that these solutions are products.  All products … Continue reading Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilisational Collapse

A Brief History of the Dopamine Dystopia: Social Media, AI and Frankenpolitics Laboratories

If you want to encourage my voice, please support my work by becoming a paid subscriber to this newsletter so that it can continue. I have minimal overheads, no sponsors I sell myself to, bosses who tell me what to write (or NOT write), or staff I have to pay. I’m here for you, raw … Continue reading A Brief History of the Dopamine Dystopia: Social Media, AI and Frankenpolitics Laboratories

Finding Meaning in An Increasingly Absurd World

Although society at large will never find the courage to acknowledge its existential descent, there is a growing unspoken feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with “The World”: it has simply stopped making sense. Today I pose the question: did it ever make sense? Many try to rationalise today’s state of the world as a … Continue reading Finding Meaning in An Increasingly Absurd World

YOLO Economics: The Macabre Business Continuity Plans of Necrocapitalism

For a society that does everything in its power to distract itself from its mortal predicaments, it is an irony that it is host to an economic system which worships death through and through, down to the core operating principles of its foundation.  Capitalism is a funeral business enriching itself through extinction, extraction and inequality.  … Continue reading YOLO Economics: The Macabre Business Continuity Plans of Necrocapitalism

History Will Not Repeat Itself

Every society we create sooner or later faces the challenge of keeping up with an escalating demand for resources.  Although there is an immense drive to acquire more, there is never any strategy to conserve or manage what is already there.  Degrowth may be omnipresent in nature, but it has never been accomplished in a human … Continue reading History Will Not Repeat Itself

A Civilisation Built on Conflict and Supremacy

The war humanity is waging on all other species has already killed much of the ecosystem.  The superorganism is dying.  Rather than celebrating our shared chemical and genetic lineage, we have been in war with other life forms since the beginning of time.  Our track record is one of genocide and extinction, because this is … Continue reading A Civilisation Built on Conflict and Supremacy

Media In the Post-Reality World

The worst enemy of truth is half-truth.  Decades of programming have overloaded us to the point where we only pay attention to headlines, not the facts (or absence thereof) behind them.  The consumatronic farm has bred any curiosity out of modern humans and replaced it with apathy on steroids.  As truth becomes diluted by a … Continue reading Media In the Post-Reality World

The Missed Revolution

People revolt only when they feel sufficiently oppressed to be prepared to risk everything.  But this critical threshold will never be reached when society has been collectively bought out by this economic system long ago.  We are stakeholders and participants in everything wrong with the world today: exploitation, natural destruction, climate breakdown.  This dystopian society … Continue reading The Missed Revolution