Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/in-this-disaster-we-are-all-ultimately-innocent ❖ Whenever I talk about the way our species is sliding toward annihilation via nuclear armageddon or environmental disaster I always get a few people saying something along the lines of, "Good, humans are horrible. The planet will be better
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/were-just-a-confused-species-in-an-awkward-transition-phase ❖ Really, when it comes right down to it, things are a mess because humans are in a very awkward and confusing stage in our development as a species.Our giant brains evolved faster than we could adjust to, and now
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/humanity-is-still-trying-to-be-born ❖ Things are fucked. That's our current situation in a nutshell.In a slightly bigger nutshell, things are fucked because powerful people are making them fucked, and they won't stop making things fucked unless ordinary people use their superior numbers to
Listen to a reading of "The End Of Illusions":https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-end-of-illusions ❖ It happened suddenly and unexpectedly, as drastic changes often do.You awoke in the morning from an unusual sleep, and something about your waking experience was very different. You couldn't say what exactly, but there was a deep
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/humanity-is-sloppily-awkwardly-lumbering-toward-consciousnessHumanity is becoming more conscious.It is. This is not a popular thing to say in the more cynical and pessimistic corners of the internet, but it's true.I'm not referring to anything "out there" or "spiritual" when I make this
Humanity will continue along its self-destructive trajectory until the masses use the power of their numbers to force real change. Humanity will not use the power of its numbers to force real change as long as it's being successfully propagandized not to do so. The
Everything keeps accelerating.That seems to be the trend here currently. Things don't appear to necessarily be getting better or worse at this point in time, they're just accelerating.It's all moving faster and faster. Major news events are getting closer and closer together, people are becoming
If humanity is to turn away from its murderous, omnicidal, ecocidal, oppressive and exploitative trajectory, it will necessarily involve a sharp, drastic deviation from all its previous patterning.You would think that this would go without saying; obviously a drastic change in behavior will look drastically
I often talk about the various reasons I still believe humanity has a fighting chance at rescuing itself from extinction and Orwellian dystopia, like the fact that our ability to network and share information is at an all-time high while trust in the mass media
Once upon a time, the first microorganisms appeared in our planet's water, and then eventually got around to evolving into complex life forms. Those life forms ate each other and had sex with each other in a frenzied orgy of chaos, eventually schlepping their way