Is This Where The Human Evolution Journey Ends?
How The Necroeconomy Became Our Master
Humans would like to believe that they represent the forefront of evolution, but there are other forms of life on Earth, both natural and artificial, that supersede them. The most terrifying life form on the planet right now is our economic system: a logistical network originally developed by humans to serve humans, but which now serves itself. We may be the creators of this system, but we have long ago been reduced to resources within it: we are its maintenance engineers, and at the same time the raw material for its expansion. This civilisation is already working for its future boss: the algorithms that have outsmarted us.
At the most fundamental level, a life form is defined as an entity that is able to replicate. Our economic system fulfils a long list of criteria that classify it not only as a life form, but as a ruthless predator who will stop at nothing in its quest to multiply. Capitalism has proven to be the ultimate invasive life form, capable of subsisting on scraps and even cannibalise itself to survive. Nothing can kill it, not even its creators who long ago became servants and dependents.
The toxic partnership between humans and capitalism is a symbiosis that took millennia to evolve. What keeps humans enslaved to this system is the dogma that profit is the goal of all social organisation. As long as this dogma persists, the hard financial figures will take precedence over people, lifeforms and planet. This economy is a death cult that sustains itself through murder: thriving on expiration dates, diminishing resources, extinction, disposable products and disposable workers. It owes its existence and persistence down to its ability to live out of the carcass of its own mother, the Earth. It is time we start calling it by its real name: necrocapitalism.