15 hours agoMember-onlyHow Intelligence Is DumbA curse-laden lesson from Oedipus Rex — Humans place great stock on intelligence — even looking for it on other planets — but our living family, nobody else is that impressed. Our animal family is more scared by what we’ve done to Mother Earth, which is not the same thing at all. Going by what we’ve done…Intelligence11 min readIntelligence11 min read
4 days agoMember-onlyThe Death Of A CivilizationAnd dealing with it — Infinite growth on a finite planet is cancer, and this cancer is terminal now. Has been for a while. I hate to be the one to tell ‘ya. Climate change is just a symptom of the all consuming rot. All the ‘renewable’ cures just move the cancerous growth to different…Death7 min readDeath7 min read
6 days agoMember-onlyWill We End Up Like The Dinosaurs?We should be so lucky — Will we end up like the dinosaurs? We should be so lucky. The dinosaurs actually survived much worse than us. They were dealing with climate change and got hit by an asteroid and somehow made it through. In paleontological fact, dinosaurs never went extinct at all. …Dinosaurs15 min readDinosaurs15 min read
Sep 16The Struggle To Mourn After An AssassinationNine months later, it’s still happening — I haven’t worn color since Dinesh Anna died. It’s only supposed to be for a few months, but I haven’t stopped. The mourning period presumably starts with a death certificate, and we haven’t even got that yet. He’s not even buried. They exhumed the body and now — nine months…Death5 min readDeath5 min read
Sep 14Member-onlyThe Long Road To RuinHow civilization took a wrong turn thousands of years ago — For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. I was at my Achchi’s house where everybody’s slowly dying. I remember when her road was a dirt road and my Seeya would walk me down it, or maybe that’s a…Climate Change9 min readClimate Change9 min read
Sep 13Member-onlyOnly A Supervillain Could Stop Climate ChangeWe need to destroy this civilization to ‘save’ the climate — When I watch Hollywood movies, I root for the villains. They’re the only ones trying to change anything. They’re certainly the only ones thinking big enough to change something on the scale of ‘the climate’. We don’t need superheroes to ‘stop’ climate change. We’d need supervillains. You Don’t Want This Speaking as someone who…Climate Change9 min readClimate Change9 min read
Sep 11Member-onlyThe Debt Slavery Of A NationHow Sri Lanka has been thrown to the loan sharks — Since Sri Lanka defaulted on its debt we have been colonized again. This time by the IMF, with policy run out of the American Embassy with Indians as enforcers. Same colonial shit, different capitalist day. This is marketed as ‘stabilization’ but it’s really just the rich standing on the backs…Sri Lanka9 min readSri Lanka9 min read
Sep 7Member-onlyHow Work Overheats The EarthWe’re ignoring the laws of physics and going to thermodynamic jail — In physics, ‘work’ is the energy transferred to (or from) an object. Not all energy can be transferred to an object, some is necessarily lost as heat. If we keep doubling the work we do every generation (a 2.3% growth rate), the waste heat boils the oceans in 400 years…Climate Change8 min readClimate Change8 min read
Sep 6Member-onlyHow Futurists Got The Future All WrongReviewing Ray Kurzweil’s predictions for 2019 — In 1999, Ray Kurzweil published The Age Of Spiritual Machines. As a teenager, the book had a great influence on me. I actually believed in what he called ‘the singularity’ and I was looking forward to it. This singularity was a point of exponential growth that would be awesome. Evolution…Technology13 min readTechnology13 min read
Sep 5Member-onlyThe Universe Is Really Telling You SomethingLessons from Einstein, Magritte, and the Tooth Fairy — Being one with the universe is thought of as being a peaceful state, but the default state of oneness is being dead. Resting in peace, as they say. A snake eating you alive can teach you this as well as a sage, but nobody wants that. What we really want…Philosophy8 min readPhilosophy8 min read
