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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As ancient as it is, and however many centuries it may have lasted, this unsustainable economic system was always destined to destroy itself. The narratives of our Civilisational Lie may have normalised unsustainable growth and unsustainable population, but what we, humans, consider “normal” is an impossible fantasy of our imagination. The laws of physics disagree … Continue reading The Argument for Assisted Collapse
A lesson which humans have yet to learn from nature is to let go of self-destructive desires. Each autumn across the north and south hemispheres, deciduous trees let go of trillions of leaves. In doing so, they ensure their survival for another year. Had they attempted to hold on to those leaves, the trees would … Continue reading Degrowth: The Wisdom of Letting Go
If there was ever a worst-case scenario of climate crisis acceleration and descent into an apocalyptic world, look no further than current reality. That scenario is playing right now. Humanity is a sinking ship under mutiny: all sailors are fighting with each other to become captain, literally as they die. The direction this civilisation has … Continue reading The Great Silence of The Human Lambs
