Nature used to be an all-you-can-eat buffet, with inexhaustible resources available to every species on the planet. The food cycle constantly regenerated with each rotation around the sun, much like sushi on a rotating conveyor belt. Humans and all the other species enjoyed this free buffet of nature for thousands of years, sometimes eating each … Continue reading Out Of Business
Within 3 weeks we have witnessed the destruction of a country, and a nation: about 1 in 4 Ukrainians are now either refugees or internally displaced, the rest of them either on the frontline or looking for food and medicine. Children are growing up with PTSD, forever psychologically scarred by the sound of bombs. Many … Continue reading Losing My Religion
Far above the Earth's atmosphere, in the peaceful silence of space, Russian and US partners of the International Space Station are squabbling over who's gonna die first if they separate. Linked at the umbilical cord, they both know that they will die without each other. But the hate is so strong. This picture is reflective … Continue reading Who Gives a Fuck about the Children
Technology has its way of accelerating the growth of a civilisation, as well as its demise. We have now crossed the point where the technology we invented has been so embedded into the fabric of our daily lives, that it feels less of a fabric and more of a spider web weaving us into a … Continue reading We Are The Suicide Bots
Our civilisation is desperate to die. It is doing everything possible within its power to put itself out of its misery in the most effective, definitive, and determined way. It does take a lot of effort to kill an entire planet. But, don't you worry. The processes of chaos, self-destruction and collapse that we have … Continue reading Deathwish
Somewhere in Ukraine's vastness, what is left of a 9-storey residential building stands like a fragile, charred skeleton, almost indistinguishable from the equally grey, angry sky behind it. Its middle section completely missing, the smoking gap is flanked on each side by two equally-sized, sister sections that seem to be pondering whether to collapse or … Continue reading When Does The Movie End?
All civilisations tend to give the false impression that, as they grow, they become more powerful, more invincible, almost unstoppable. This is an illusion. They all have one weakness, which becomes more and more pronounced, the more that they grow: Complexity. The more complexity a civilisation develops, the more fragile it becomes, just like a … Continue reading Number 81
Once upon a time in the future, 200 thousand years from now, There was a lonely toilet seat at the bottom of the ocean. It sat there motionless all day, half buried in the sand, As it watched the world go by: The flocks of small fish, the sharks, whales, and seals, All of which … Continue reading To Be Loved
Born inside a paradise full of animals and fruit The Humans started building shelves, And then walls around the shelves. They installed cash registers at the front entrance and started putting price tags on everything. Nothing was free anymore. The Earth became a huge supermarket As everything was stolen and brought inside so it can … Continue reading How To Sell Your Mother
Dear Readers and Followers, I hope this finds you well. Thank you so much for your support over the past few months while A New Earth - The Apocalypse Locus was being conceived and written, during one of the most interesting periods of my life. As with many of you in similar situations, I was living in … Continue reading A New Earth, Made out of Chaos
George Tsakraklides 