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How it all ends

Billions of years of planetary evolution, and here we are, contemplating our own self-destruction, along with much of the living world, in pursuit of wealth, power and other elaborate fictions we have mistaken for necessities.

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Armageddon Absurdity

Across the world, the sociocultural reality we call civilisation exists only as a field of shared meaning and communicative patterns held in living minds and enacted through collective interaction. If the population of minds sustaining that field were abruptly extinguished, the artefacts of culture — cities, texts, technologies, narratives — would persist physically but would […]