George Tsakraklides

Evilution: Why the Psychopaths Always Win The fact that the most dangerous psychopaths end up in the highest positions of power is a huge indictment on society.

“Evolution never selected for healthy societies, rather, it has always selected for the most cunning, quick, and interpersonal individuals”
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American Deathcare: The Short Story Sickness and death have become much bigger money-makers for the economy than the provision of health coverage to citizens.

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Evilution: Why the Psychopaths Always Win The fact that the most dangerous psychopaths end up in the highest positions of power is a huge indictment on society.

“Our prisons are filled with people incarcerated for petty crimes which are the direct result of social inequality, while those responsible for this inequality jet set from one continent to the next, and from their latest war crime to the next UN buffet lunch”
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Evilution: Why the Psychopaths Always Win The fact that the most dangerous psychopaths end up in the highest positions of power is a huge indictment on society.

“Our prisons are filled with people incarcerated for petty crimes which are the direct result of social inequality, while those responsible for this inequality jet set from one continent to the next, and from their latest war crime to the next UN buffet lunch”
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“If we want to avoid more genocides, ecocides and our own extinction, we will need to strengthen societies, collectivize democracy, and significantly weaken the role of the individual”
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Evilution: Why the Psychopaths Always Win The fact that the most dangerous psychopaths end up in the highest positions of power is a huge indictment on society.

“It seems that our societies will always give psychopaths the benefit of a doubt yet refuse to ever entertain any doubts about the rights and obligations of common individuals simply trying to survive”
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It Is Never a War. It Is Always a Business The minute a human becomes a soldier, they become a fast-moving consumer good in the war sausage factory: entering the factory as a life form with an identity and soul, and processed into an anonymous...

“The minute a human becomes a soldier, they become a fast-moving consumer good in the war sausage factory”
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“US and Israel are showing the rest of the world that capitalism does not create peace, but militarized states that turn people into consumables, war into an industry, and genocide into a business”

“US and Israel are showing the rest of the world that capitalism does not create peace, but militarized states that turn people into consumables, war into an industry, and genocide into a business”

A nation that owes its existence to genocide, subsists through war, and wages war on its own people is not a nation. It is a weapons supermarket and its citizens are the bullets.

“Too often we stay stuck forever mourning the moments that were going to elapse anyway, failing to see that the wreckage they leave behind is the birthplace of the next moment”

Inside the Brain of a Dictator: Why Trump Will Ultimately Use the Nuclear Codes People who suffer from addiction are sometimes mistakenly seen as the most mentally unbalanced members of society.

“Trump is so desperate for attention that, the nuclear codes are the rosary he clutches on to. If all else fails, he can always use the nuclear option and catapult himself straight to the top of the hall of fame”
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A nation that owes its existence to genocide, subsists through war, and wages war on its own people is not a nation. It is a weapons supermarket and its citizens are the bullets.

Inside the Brain of a Dictator: Why Trump Will Ultimately Use the Nuclear Codes People who suffer from addiction are sometimes mistakenly seen as the most mentally unbalanced members of society.

“Trump is so desperate for attention that, the nuclear codes are the rosary he clutches on to. If all else fails, he can always use the nuclear option and catapult himself straight to the top of the hall of fame”
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A Phlogophora meticulosa moth this morning in the garden, lounging on an overwintering wild Viola tricolor (wild pansy).

It looks like a wooden African mask, probably to discourage predators

We are living through the last stages of the Great Depletion, when superpredators run out of prey and begin to eat each other
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“Even a doomer should look forward to a new day, even if it’s yet another demolition day”
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“On a planet that recycles energy, carcasses, and entire civilizations, something or someone will surely make use of this pile of wreckage”
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Humans Don’t Belong on Earth: The Great Depletion of Everything The fact that humans are now quickly running out of affordable food and affordable housing is something that should tell a very simple story, yet financial analysts and news outlets continue to downgr...

“It is in the DNA of human civilisations to keep calm, delude themselves, and self-destruct”
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A Moment’s Wreckage Last week an unprecedented storm took down much of the waterfront in my neighbourhood.

“We are all first-hand witnesses of a global demolition taking place: of social structures, of our personal freedoms, and of a planet that has already been mauled beyond recognition by a species that is as quick to generate new moments as it is to bury them”
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A Moment’s Wreckage Last week an unprecedented storm took down much of the waterfront in my neighbourhood.

“Being a witness comes with responsibility. You can take the selfie video in front of the tsunami, but this only worships the moment of the wreckage itself. Moments die whether we record them or not. What matters is what you decide to make out of their wreckage”
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A Moment’s Wreckage Last week an unprecedented storm took down much of the waterfront in my neighbourhood.

“We are all first-hand witnesses of a global demolition taking place: of social structures, of our personal freedoms, and of a planet that has already been mauled beyond recognition by a species that is as quick to generate new moments as it is to bury them”
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“Awarding plants and animals legal rights today wouldn’t be an upgrade, but a restoration of the rights that were taken away from them hundreds of thousands of years ago”
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“Awarding plants and animals legal rights today wouldn’t be an upgrade, but a restoration of the rights that were taken away from them hundreds of thousands of years ago”
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“Any civilisation that fails to limit its growth ultimately becomes the latest in a long list of casualties who saw the limits, and still chose to speed into the wall”
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“Any system that depends on the quick commoditisation, expiration and disposal of things, people, and species, ultimately comes with its own rapidly approaching expiration date”
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“By continuously embracing untested technologies that are too new to warrant any serious scrutiny, necrocapitalism always manages to rebrand itself as a state-of-the-art improvement on its previous version”
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“Any civilisation that fails to limit its growth ultimately becomes the latest in a long list of casualties who saw the limits, and still chose to speed into the wall”
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“We are living through the last stages of the Great Depletion, when superpredators run out of prey and begin to eat each other”