Designed For Extinction: Why Humans Developed the Wrong Type of Intelligence

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Contrary to what our impressive technological milestones suggest, we have never been in charge of our fate. Like any organism striving to maximize its chances of survival, our choices were blindly driven by expansion: economic growth, domination, population increase - whatever it took, whatever the cost to us or the planet. From our humble beginnings as monocellular life … Continue reading Designed For Extinction: Why Humans Developed the Wrong Type of Intelligence

Is This Where The Human Evolution Journey Ends?

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Humans would like to believe that they represent the forefront of evolution, but there are other forms of life on Earth, both natural and artificial, that supersede them. The most terrifying life form on the planet right now is our economic system: a logistical network originally developed by humans to serve humans, but which now … Continue reading Is This Where The Human Evolution Journey Ends?

Discovering Your Systemic Rage

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Time To Give this Collapsing Death Cult the Middle Finger Like all tyrannies, this economy relies on psychological and financial extortion to bully us into working for a system that bullies the planet. This chain of abuse is not only a side effect of capitalism. It is its central driving force. Yet our dystopia is … Continue reading Discovering Your Systemic Rage

The longest 10 minutes of your life have just begun

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Our powerful, charismatic brain is not designed for long-term planning and projecting.  Its impressive capacity to solve problems is at its peak only when these problems are present right here, right now.  From a survival point of view, the “right here right now” is much more important than 10 years from now, or even 10 … Continue reading The longest 10 minutes of your life have just begun

Collapse Denial and the Trauma Response

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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

The Happiness Report: Zombies At the Beach

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Yesterday at the beach I saw a dog that reminded me what it feels like to be a healthy human.  It was a tiny brown poodle with an aqua-green sweater that more than made up for its size in sassiness, sexiness, energy, and as Iggy Pop would say, lust for life.  The sad part in … Continue reading The Happiness Report: Zombies At the Beach

The Great Silence of The Human Lambs

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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

The Big Unconsciousness:  The Rain in Spain Has Come Here to Remain

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As a desperate yet foolish humanity attempts to escape the fires and floods it set in motion, the likelihood is that it will follow the same ancient knee-jerk reactions it always has: looking for solutions in half-baked technology and “destroy-now, pay-later capitalism”, than look deep within itself.  Worse even, it will continue to set off … Continue reading The Big Unconsciousness:  The Rain in Spain Has Come Here to Remain

Beyond The Petri Dish (Audio)

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Listen to my new interview at Alex Smith's Ecoshock Radio about my latest book and more. Alex asks me about some of the main concepts in the book, chapter by chapter. And here is the previous interview from last January George is an author, researcher, molecular biologist and food scientist. You can follow him on … Continue reading Beyond The Petri Dish (Audio)

Bullied by Global Capital: Revolt of The Consumatrons

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We are all bullied into working for an economic system which in turn bullies the planet.  This chain of exploitation, injustice and inequality is not simply a side effect of capitalism.  It is what drives it.  And like all bullies, this system depends on the subordination and psychological control of its victims.  Our society is … Continue reading Bullied by Global Capital: Revolt of The Consumatrons