Live Fast, Die Young: The Great Procrastination

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The short-term nature of this civilisation is evident in its short-term economic system: impulse buying, instant gratification, single-use commodities and single-use natural resources are all manifestations of a mindset that systematically ignores long-term repercussions.  Our psychological coping mechanisms and addictions seek short term relief in unhealthy foods, drugs, and habits that make us feel good … Continue reading Live Fast, Die Young: The Great Procrastination

A Brain from Another Time

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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

Collapse Denial and the Trauma Response

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Our brain has a dangerous affinity for stability: it desperately wants to believe in an unchanging world, even as the world changes.  This make-believe stability evolved as a survival mechanism that was fundamental to our feelings of safety, allowing us to "keep calm and carry on" even as our world went through mayhem.  Our brain … Continue reading Collapse Denial and the Trauma Response

Happiness In the Machine Age

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Genuine forms of happiness have been exchanged for counterfeit versions originating in the world of machines: goods owned, GDP units earned, number of holidays left.  Happiness is being measured in numbers and quantities instead of moments and feelings.  Of all human generations who have lived before us, we are the least capable of answering the … Continue reading Happiness In the Machine Age

Welcome to Your Prosthetic Life

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Had we been too quick to roll out the red carpet for technology?  Had we passively accepted all the conveniences for the price of saying goodbye, forever, to essential parts of our biological being?  Like a patient waking up in an operating theatre wondering whether all their parts are still in place, humanity found itself … Continue reading Welcome to Your Prosthetic Life

The Biggest, Oldest Economy In The World Is Burning

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With any economy, the faster you grow and expand, the sooner you die, just like an obesity patient.  There is, however, one economy in the world who has got it right.  It neither grows nor dies, and actually manages to stay the same, or at least it did, until recently.  It is the oldest economy … Continue reading The Biggest, Oldest Economy In The World Is Burning

On Intelligence

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Humans suffer from the perversion of perfectionism, which leads to insecurity, greed, selfishness, jealousy and conflict.  But our nature is to be imperfect.  In fact, all of nature is imperfect.  Yet it continues, it survives, without ever looking back or looking down.  All that matters is now.  Humanity has been torturing itself since its very … Continue reading On Intelligence

Happiness In the Machine Age: An Exclusively Human Problem

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Along with relinquishing much of our freedom to technology, we have exchanged true happiness with counterfeit versions which only make sense in a machine world:  we quantify happiness based on the number of consumer goods we buy and on GDP rather than on meaningful existence, exactly because we emulate machines: focusing only on the numbers … Continue reading Happiness In the Machine Age: An Exclusively Human Problem

How Human Supremacy Killed the Search For Knowledge

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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

Generations of Ecological Estrangement

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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