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17 hours ago

Poverty And Damned Statistics

How economists have it all backwards, in the US and Sri Lanka — In both America and its capital colony Sri Lanka, economists point to numbers to say people are doing fine. Reduced inflation, etc. As the old medical joke goes, “the operation was a success, but the patient died.” Here’s some numbers to tell you why the conventional statistics are lies. Poverty…

Sri Lanka

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Poverty And Damned Statistics
Poverty And Damned Statistics
Sri Lanka

7 min read


2 days ago

How Intelligence Is Dumb

A 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. …

Intelligence

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How Intelligence Is Dumb
How Intelligence Is Dumb
Intelligence

11 min read


6 days ago

The Death Of A Civilization

And 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…

Death

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The Death Of A Civilization
The Death Of A Civilization
Death

7 min read


Sep 19

Will 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. …

Dinosaurs

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Will We End Up Like The Dinosaurs?
Will We End Up Like The Dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs

15 min read


Sep 16

The Struggle To Mourn After An Assassination

Nine 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…

Death

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The Struggle To Mourn After An Assassination
The Struggle To Mourn After An Assassination
Death

5 min read


Sep 14

The Long Road To Ruin

How 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 Change

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The Long Road To Ruin
The Long Road To Ruin
Climate Change

9 min read


Sep 13

Only A Supervillain Could Stop Climate Change

We 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 Change

9 min read

Only A Supervillain Could Stop Climate Change
Only A Supervillain Could Stop Climate Change
Climate Change

9 min read


Sep 11

The Debt Slavery Of A Nation

How 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 Lanka

9 min read

The Debt Slavery Of A Nation
The Debt Slavery Of A Nation
Sri Lanka

9 min read


Sep 7

How Work Overheats The Earth

We’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 Change

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How Work Overheats The Earth
How Work Overheats The Earth
Climate Change

8 min read


Sep 6

How Futurists Got The Future All Wrong

Reviewing 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…

Technology

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How Futurists Got The Future All Wrong
How Futurists Got The Future All Wrong
Technology

13 min read

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.

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