Can a System Revolt Against Itself?  Why Climate Protest May Be Completely Doomed.

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The most successful protests in human history were led by angry mobs with simple and concrete demands: freedom, food, equality, the right to vote and so on. The anger, the urgency and the passion drove some demonstrators to even sacrifice their lives for their cause.  Whether they were French peasants, African Americans, LGBTQ activists or … Continue reading Can a System Revolt Against Itself?  Why Climate Protest May Be Completely Doomed.

The Impossible Math of Growth

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Thousands of years ago humans supercharged their destiny by embracing the most disruptive, powerful, and life-changing technologies. Although the agricultural, industrial, and information revolutions are traditionally discussed as discrete epochs, they are in fact part of one, big progression: our increasing capability to do things at scale; in the case of these three revolutions, to … Continue reading The Impossible Math of Growth

The Great “Solutions” Swindle: Capital, Products, Technology and the Civilisational Lie

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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 are harmful to the planet, however green their credentials might be.  Bringing a product to market inflicts immense devastation: the minute a … Continue reading The Great “Solutions” Swindle: Capital, Products, Technology and the Civilisational Lie

Systemic Terrorism and The Illusion of Democracy

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The most effective way to undermine a democracy today is to purchase it and force each citizen to buy a share in it.  In one step you have seized power and eliminated all potential opposition.  This is not a new political system. Rather, it is the end of politics altogether. Power today has been transferred … Continue reading Systemic Terrorism and The Illusion of Democracy

Capitalism Is A Metabolic Disease. Welcome To Your Late Stage Economic Diabetes

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Fat deposits in our body work exactly like a battery: whenever there is a surplus of food in our bloodstream, insulin hormone is released which diverts this food into storage. This happens within specialized cells which are able to turn carbohydrates and proteins into a molecule which is the perfect battery pack: incredibly light and … Continue reading Capitalism Is A Metabolic Disease. Welcome To Your Late Stage Economic Diabetes

The False Narrative of Conflict

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Evolving Into One 3.5 billion years ago, life began to emerge on Earth. A single, lonely cell, the ancestor which we share with every other life form on the planet, began to diverge into unique individual species.  At first, only a handful of fragile life forms existed, barely distinguishable from each other.  Fast forward a … Continue reading The False Narrative of Conflict

(Psssst…I have a NEW BOOK out)

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Beyond The Petri Dish: Human Consciousness in the Time of Collapse, Apathy and Algorithms We are experiencing an era of unprecedented cognitive dissonance.  Despite incredible advances in our capacity to access information and “truth”, we have reached a terrifying all-time high for apathy. The planet’s existential-level catastrophe is systematically edited out of the news, even … Continue reading (Psssst…I have a NEW BOOK out)

Dawn of the Algorithmocracy

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The Thing is getting much more than us out of this human / machine partnership deal. It is getting the most precious commodity: data.  It is beginning to own us, and our only planet.  We have relinquished control over who buys our data, how much they pay for it, and what they do with it.  … Continue reading Dawn of the Algorithmocracy

Hallucinating Parasites and the War on Physics

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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

Problem-Solving Savages at the Edge of Extinction

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All power corrupts, brain power being no exception to this. At some point in our evolution, the human brain became huge.  The tremendous competitive advantages of such a brain would unavoidably lead us to arrogance, as we became increasingly masterful at using this brain less as a reasoning device, and more as a weapon of … Continue reading Problem-Solving Savages at the Edge of Extinction