A Human Imposter

We have every reason to wish to dismantle an economic system which has become an existential threat to both humans and the planet.  Any economic system which sees nature and human rights as threats to its bottom line is ultimately a threat to nature, humans and itself.  Necrocapitalism has no loyalties, alliances, feelings or even … Continue reading A Human Imposter

All Roads Lead to Self-Destruction

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

Overshoot Deficit Disorder

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

The Unbearable Lightness of Entertainment

Entertainment has become indispensable to the necrosystem both as a distraction and a buffer against truth.  Making light of disasters is the most effective way to normalise crises and deflect from any serious conversation attempting to zoom in on culprits.  Fortunately for the ruling classes, people desperate for distraction love to be entertained and it … Continue reading The Unbearable Lightness of Entertainment

In The Age of Infinite Consumer Choice, The Only Choice is Collapse

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 Consumatronic Dystopia

Our economic system has preyed upon our survival instincts to turn us into insecure consumatrons.  The more we define ourselves by what we own, the more this system owns us.  We have come to a point in our history where our sense of self-worth is drawn not from self-respect, but from our level of access … Continue reading The Consumatronic Dystopia

The Extinction Tariff

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

Collapse Denial and the Trauma Response

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 Age of the Farmed Consumatron

It is both interesting and terrifying that the survival of this economic system has become more important than the survival of humanity.  The necrosystem only cares about propagating itself, which it achieves by farming more humans and creating more consumer needs.  Human society did not simply invent business.  It has become a business all to … Continue reading The Age of the Farmed Consumatron

How to Survive a Pre-Collapse Dystopia: a Conceptual Segmentation

In every pre-collapse dystopia there are three types of people: those who represent and curate it, those who have sided with it, and those who detest it. Parasites. Main driver: profit acceleration The first group needs no introduction.  It represents the classic self-centred human, typically exemplified by the ruthless accelerationism of “destroy-now-pay-later” suicide economics of … Continue reading How to Survive a Pre-Collapse Dystopia: a Conceptual Segmentation