Another last action hero
The War on Kids
The biggest fear in the most audacious hope.
Human beings have always died. Death has been invariable and guaranteed. For all aeons death was more or less the default outcome of life for any human being, with some variations in life expectancy, state of relative affluence and destitution, exposure to disease and infirmity. In other words – humans lived a few decades and…
Neofeudalism
Shrugged? Oh sure Atlas will “shrug” as his head rolls from the Guillotine.
Comment to this article It makes perfect sense. We live in a world of contrived happiness. There is a lot of people that expect stuff, by and large because they had stuff in the past. Most of these people fully well realize the party is over and this roll of the dice is not going…
Spelling it out.
The living will envy the dead. Sorry, a bit depressed right now.
Taking the US out of the loop
Everyone who read ten articles on zero hedge should be able to realize is that the global economy won’t be growing any more. Available technology, existing labour force, our political apparatus and our collective sense of justice and entitlements provides us with a given amount of collective global (or western world..) productivity. This productivity has…
Monocle
Supply and Demand
Quote me on this
…protest, revolution, unionization, civil unrest, crime, occupy and sabotage are just as much features of supply & demand as wage fluctuations, irreversible unemployability, prisons, law enforcement crackdowns, environmental destruction, biosphere die-off, climate weirding and the end costs of products. Make living conditions less bearable for people, and no matter how much propaganda and denial you…
After extensive mathematical modeling, scientist declares “Earth is Fucked”
Dave Levitan at IO9 Brad Werner has a simple question: Is the Earth fucked? He also has a remarkably complicated methodology yielding a very simple answer: yes, unless people start a serious global rebellion. Werner, a complex systems researcher at UC San Diego, spoke on Wednesday at the huge American Geophyiscal Union conference going on…
Overwhelming, incapacitating depression
After a night with the worst nightmares, today feels like hell. Really awful. I can only stare blankly in to the distance.
The Truth About Dishonesty
Immortality, Quantum Archaeology and my Poo Collection.
Humans want to survive. Religion is about getting “saved”, and the desire to be saved is basically an allegory on the urgency to want to live. Living isn’t always fun (ask Eugen) but over-all it beats being dead. The desire to live is innate to us as human beings, and many would want to do…
Ten Cosmicist Convictions
1) The human state of dominance on this planet is ending. We are stumbling in to a largely inescapable monstrosity. We have experienced, as an animal being, a state of relative innocence. Being a nomadic, hunter-gatherer homo sapiens signified a state of Eden, largely because we didn’t know any better. Now because of blind luck…
Ten Cosmist Convictions
1) Humans will merge with technology, to a rapidly increasing extent. This is a new phase of the evolution of our species, just picking up speed about now. The divide between natural and artificial will blur, then disappear. Some of us will continue to be humans, but with a radically expanded and always growing range…
34 Signs That America Is In Decline
(source) The United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline. Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this, but not me. I mourn for the country that I was born in and that I still love. Yes, the United States has never been perfect, but the Republic that our…
Jacques in London
Order and Disorder
Kevin George Haskell
Transhumanism is real, but only for the rich, and only for the 1-10%. Either work hard and smart to get into that group, or you will be either depopulated peacefully or via force. Make your choices now. If you don’t think you are competent enough to be in that 1-10%, then make your peace with…
Christian group says demon sex makes you gay
Sauce A Christian magazine warns that homosexuality is caused by sex with succubi — and that’s just the beginning. The reigning scientific consensus on sexual orientation is that it’s an inherited, biological trait, but that’s just because scientists don’t know how to party. A far sexier explanation has been offered up by Christian magazine Charisma,…
Show me the money, “Caress” me.
Facebook wants to get rid of the up-vote button. And what does it actually mean, other than a virtual pat on the head? As virtual pats on the head come, I’d prefer a more tangible one. So what if we can? What if we can have a button on Facebook, approved or not by Marky-mark,…
Tropicana Black Rock
Symptomatic Stagnation
Here are some visual interpretations of massive waste of collective societal resources and capital in my current city. I strongly propose a law to nationalize/collectivize empty (half finished) resources and buildings such as these – worldwide. Local unemployment levels are over 25%. The question I am asking here is “if a private party uses the…