A key pathology common among far-right voters is that they fundamentally believe that a society where every single person thrives cannot exist. There is a strong sense by these voters that there is only enough wealth to go around for a small segment of society, therefore someone else’s life has to be destroyed for them … Continue reading Fuck Around and Find Out: The Politics of Hate
A dystopia is what happens to a civilisation when it has stopped paying attention to reality. Then again, when were civilisations ever self-aware? However real the climate crisis may get, escapism into the Mind Prison will always get the better out of humans. By the time thousands perish daily, there will be too much hunger, … Continue reading Invisible Dystopias
In the same way it consumed natural resources to exhaustion, capitalism turned each human into a disposable pair of hands. All the crimes humanity perpetrated on this planet, it has also perpetrated on itself: destruction, extinction and exploitation are not side effects but essential elements of this civilisation’s operating system. We live in a … Continue reading The Human Necrocapital
As the fascist US regime continues to violate one Federal Law after another, the LGBTQ community is unsurprisingly at the centre of the storm, and shy of undergoing Hitler-style active persecutions by the way things are progressing. Everything LGBTQ is being demolished right now: from HIV research to gender-change passport documents. There is a reason … Continue reading Everyone Is Queer Now
The problem with civilisation is that it is simply self-destructive: driven by profit and efficiency alone, self-programmed to implode by following a predictable recipe of maximum death/maximum profit economics. This monstrous progeny of our greed now runs the planet. It operates not on dreams, laughter, feelings, creativity, love, compassion or any of our best human … Continue reading All Roads Lead to Self-Destruction
When I warned years ago that the climate crisis would be completely forgotten in a few years, I was ignored like some type of attention-seeking “boy cried wolf” conspiracist. But I meant what I said. And I still mean it, and events prove me right. Just look around, even the worst-case scenario didn’t look this … Continue reading Overshoot Deficit Disorder
I was asked during an interview by an American institution what choices do we have in the current environment: Trump, fascism, etc. As a determinist, I don't believe choice exists. It doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for choice, but the chances of avoiding the inevitable demise of humans are slim to none. The US political … Continue reading In The Age of Infinite Consumer Choice, The Only Choice is Collapse
The economic war between US and Canada, Mexico or China is only the fine script in the much wider economic war taking place between a bankrupt humanity on one hand, and an equally bankrupt Earth on the other. The real war of tariffs is taking place between two much less known economies: the human Ponzi … Continue reading The Extinction Tariff
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
Conflict, genocide and ecocide have always relied on supremacist rhetoric. The reason we have failed to root-out prejudice, speciesism and discrimination is because supremacy, in all its incarnations, is a boundless economic powerhouse. Supremacy narratives facilitated the creation of false hierarchies which propped up power structures and enabled the worst of capitalism: black vs. white, … Continue reading Supremacy In the Mirror World
George Tsakraklides 