When universities bowed down to the junta many people were shocked, but I wasn’t one of them. Perhaps it was because after spending 11 years in US academia, I had already noticed a disturbing trend: education transforming itself from a vital social function to an industry with its own fast-moving consumer goods, brainwashed customers, greedy … Continue reading The Curiosity Crisis: Why Universities Became Brothels
It was a balmy November morning when Mr Mosquito stretched his long legs for the very first time, and started to crawl out of his egg like a Houdini. He quickly swam to the surface, focused his big, dark eyes, and took a good look around him: “Wow, it’s the world!”, he shouted to himself, … Continue reading November Mosquito
Today’s epidemic of authoritarianism is the consequence of a society that long ago embraced the values of necrocapitalist imperialism: ruthless profit, heartlessness, manipulation, and pure, unadulterated sadism toward the most vulnerable. In an increasingly remote-operated world, attributing responsibility is becoming near impossible: tyrants and oligarchs can safely hide behind layers of code, while the rest of … Continue reading How They Killed Reality
AI is no less “biological” than you and I. Just because it is made up of entirely different building blocks it doesn’t mean it’s not alive. Just because it is a type of life form that has never existed before it doesn’t mean it’s not a life form. And just because it lacks human-like physical … Continue reading Inside the Mind of an AI. It’s Supremacy Stupid!
Global industrial society may have successfully catered to the primal impulses of food, comfort and ownership, but it would end up blatantly neglecting humanity’s most basic emotional needs. When we created this civilisation, we somehow thought that if we solved issues of scarcity, efficiency and comfort, everything else would fall into place. We thought we were … Continue reading Lost in Consumption: The Age of the Consumatronic Zombie
Every society we create sooner or later faces the challenge of keeping up with an escalating demand for resources. Although there is an immense drive to acquire more, there is never any strategy to conserve or manage what is already there. Degrowth may be omnipresent in nature, but it has never been accomplished in a human … Continue reading History Will Not Repeat Itself
Seeking safety in replicating the bad examples of others is one of the most unfortunate human traits. Most of the time we blindly follow the herd of a collective unconsciousness tugging itself towards a random direction. Sabotaging our access to our own vast emotional reservoir, we unconditionally surrender to a mind prison assembled for us … Continue reading The End of Free-Range Humans
Had we been too quick to roll out the red carpet for technology? Had we passively accepted all the conveniences for the price of saying goodbye, forever, to essential parts of our biological being? Like a patient waking up in an operating theatre wondering whether all their parts are still in place, humanity found itself … Continue reading Welcome to Your Prosthetic Life
George Tsakraklides 