The intro to the intro of a book

Grouches of the world unite

Row, row, row your boat, merrily down the mainstream

‘Minorities’ are getting the 'reigns' just in time to take the blame

Attachment to the self is the root of suffering, not the way out

How the ‘free press’ is bought and paid for.

A note from a dead future

How next-day delivery is the new opiate of the masses

Obscene profits are the greatest market inefficiency

There are more lion products on Amazon than lions in the wild

At least it acknowledges that there’s a big problem

We try to teach them, but what do we know?

The age of discovery was destruction, and the Cold War ended with the worst people on top

And its continuing zombie existence, eating brains

We still have servants, we just don’t look at them

On great evil, our dharma to fight that evil, and also the deep hopelessness of it all

And how ‘The Economy’ lives and dies

For the second time in geological history, we have flown too close to the sun

Modern buildings are so shit compared to cathedrals and climates

Ding dong the Queen is dead

Just ask peacocks

How asking ‘how are you?’ is both heroic and banal

When someone close dies and you’re far away

and I feel fine

Get right with god, with the earth, and with your community

How we’re living on borrowed time

Grave goods mark the evolution of commodities, not human beings

On the unreality of reality and the power of dreams

How the brown man is becoming white

They took all the species and put them in a species museum

Human reproduction and the reproduction of Capital

As the curse goes, we live in interesting times

How America obviously yet invisibly rules the world

How we exist on many dimensions at once

By over-promising on vaccines and under-delivering, Western elites have imperiled public health for generations

A reading list of how I deprogrammed it myself

On mental health and material conditions.

Everybody’s got COVID and we've just gotten used to it.

Climate change is a planetary reckoning. We have obviously fucked around with the wrong gods and found out.

As illustrated with 25 Economist covers

We should quit, but even slowing down gives us the shakes

The neoliberal logic that destroys public goods

It’s just a little bit of history repeating

Not planning our economies is just planning to fail

Property is winning.

Sri Lanka is a systemic collapse, and you live in the same system too

Sri Lanka was the first South Asian country to neoliberalize, and the first to fall

How America’s military actually sucks

My experience in a visa line

And why we need to tear liberal democracy down