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
Listen to this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/capitalism-is-a-misanthropic-dystopian-religionCapitalism is a misanthropic, dystopian religion. By "capitalism" I mean this or any other possible system wherein mass-scale human behavior is driven by the pursuit of capital. By "religion" I mean organized collective faith-based belief system.In times past the dominant religions had names
Listen to this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/space-colonization-is-a-capitalist-perception-management-opThe world's two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now.Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are in a dispute with NASA over whose private space exploration corporation will get the
We're in the thick of it. Nobody gets to hold themselves as separate from the madness of our species. Not if they are being truthful.Our minds are touching right now by virtue of an internet that is responsible for 3.7 percent of global greenhouse emissions,
Whale songs sound so sad.I wonder, did they used to sound happy?Before we butchered their ancestors, and filled their oceans with plastic?And I wonder what they're doing with all that brain matter? The sperm whale has the largest brain of the animal kingdom; it doesn't
UFOs have been in the news again. Routinely seeing headlines about this phenomenon in mainstream news outlets would have been unthinkable a few short years ago, but now it just shows up as one more feature on our continually expanding haunted hayride into infinite weirdness.So
I saw a line in a recent New Yorker article about America's endless wars, and it's been been rattling around in my head ever since: "In Syria, McKenzie visited the Green Village, a community of decrepit apartment blocks near a bombed-out oil facility that served as
The Principia Discordia is the primary text of Discordianism, which has been described as either an elaborate joke disguised as a religion or a religion disguised as an elaborate joke, depending on who you ask.One section describes a short dialogue between the Principia's author "Malaclypse
Nothing of significance has changed since Trump left office, apart from the narratives about how much things have changed.The wars are still going. Washington is still the hub of an oligarchic globe-spanning empire. Americans are still being impoverished and propagandized into political impotence by an
I write about humanity's problems as a species in all sorts of ways in this space, but really if you want to get straightforward about things all we're ever actually talking about here is a lack of awareness of what's true and the need to