continued from previous She closed the notebook shut with a single, slow but decisive hand movement. She kept on staring at it for a few seconds, almost in a comatose state, as she tried to wake up from her daydream. How could it be that the entire world was sitting inside a notebook, in a … Continue reading A New Earth – Disaster Gene
(FINE PRINT) 100 other species are going extinct daily As much as we consider Nature non-sentient, it definitely has its thinking hat on at the moment: it is beginning to tackle climate change before humans can even begin to acknowledge it. It is doing this by trying to curb human population, the number one aggravator of … Continue reading Hormonal Karma: Sperm counts are nose-diving for the most populous animal on Earth
It is a river like no other. Traversing the Earth in a straight line, it has no time for twists and turns, no desire to smell the roses along the way. It only cares about transporting its sad, silent load: not fish, not humans, not even water. It is a river of electronics, clothing and every other gadget … Continue reading The Suez Canal
An imaginary friend. A construct of our ego, desperate to believe that someone is watching, someone actually cares about our existence. God is the personification of the real forces of creation: the stardust, the light, the gravity. God is the excuse to sin: it will all be forgiven, because after all, we are His children. … Continue reading God
The transfer of resources and funds from Earth's Economy into the Human Economy, until the former is depleted and the latter, parasitic one, dies as a result. Profit, the one and only goal of capitalism, is dependent on racism, natural destruction, inequality and exploitation. Capitalism is therefore an oxymoron, because it relies on its eventual … Continue reading Profit
Every time the sun sets We question our existence Who put us here and why are they looking at us from above do they even care what we do with our time. We try to find reasons justifications A purpose and a destiny that we must fulfill. But there is no purpose Other than to … Continue reading Mirrors
There is a point beyond the horizon where time is generated for each of us It rides on the northerly wind and arrives in invisible parcels to be opened only at the time of use It is acquired by inhalation nurtured by the speed of our blood and only when it feels ready does it … Continue reading Time
(from Pocket Philosophy for End Times - A Lexicon of Dystopia) Our economic system has been sustained by the invention of the abstract and physically impossible concept of waste: the irrational notion that any object, resource or even human can suddenly lose its value, sometimes without any actual change in its physical properties, and be … Continue reading Waste
(from Pocket Philosophy for End Times - A Lexicon of Dystopia) The complex social, cultural, economic and political structures that emerge once a species begins to effectively parasitize its environment, and the creation of the myths, religions and toxic, self-serving belief systems that temporarily allow this system to sustain itself, evolve and propagate at the … Continue reading Civilisation
Born inside a museum we gazed around with voracious eyes as we began to open the display cases, savoring ancient delicacies. “there is more in the back” – someone shouted. But each new generation forgot about the deeds of the previous one. Each new herd of our kin ignored what the museum used to look … Continue reading Scattered
George Tsakraklides 