With so much choice, people have become far more disposable
Never has it been easier to join a dating app, swipe, match, chat, and voila, you’ve got yourself a date. And if the date doesn’t work out, you’re safe in the comfort there’s plenty more fish in the sea. Or should that be plenty more swipes on the app? You…
Technology has made us all-powerful, but that power has a dark side
Today, if you have enough money, you can buy pretty much anything you want and do anything you want. But our domination of the Earth, through the technology that has made us so powerful, has a dark side that could lead to our destruction.
The only thing controlling humans is…
They are under the spell of a truth-defence mechanism
Recent protests in Melbourne against vaccination have become all too familiar. Reasons for not wanting to take the vaccine vary. Some say it turns you into a zombie. Others say it contains a microchip. Maybe the most outlandish claim was to compare NHS nurses administering the vaccine to nazis. …
Economic growth has become an unquestioned truth
The saying money makes the world go round, isn’t quite true. Behind the money are economists, who are some of the most influential people in modern society. They’re so influential because economics drives policy decisions that are crucial to how society functions. A key belief of modern economics is economic…
Sexual promiscuity is one of the greatest lies of modern society
In modern society, the sexually liberated pleasure-seeking individual is seen as someone living life to the full. While many consider the sexually monogamous lifestyle boring and safe. But this is one of the great lies of the modern age, why?
Ursula Le Guin puts it beautifully in The Dispossessed when…
The fact BP (an oil company) created the carbon footprint is one of multiple red flags
The carbon footprint has become a well-known phrase in the climate change vernacular. The idea is that by being aware of the emissions you cause as an individual, you can work to make changes and reduce your footprint. If everyone takes steps to reduce their footprint, it can create huge…
Both countries are victims of extremism, just at opposite ends of political poles
At first glance, America, the home of capitalism and the land of the free, couldn’t be any different from North Korea, a totalitarian communist state. But the two countries have a lot more in common than meets the eye.
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The sauna made for a perfect ‘dark’ tourist destination
“Let’s go to a sex sauna. I go every time I visit London,” my friend said casually over drinks, having met an hour earlier in Soho. I was surprised as I had never heard of a sauna, let alone a sex sauna in London. …
Social media has a corrosive influence on society
Facebook has nearly three billion monthly active users, YouTube has just over two billion, and Instagram has a billion. Social media has consumed the world, and the content creators who ‘make it’ on these platforms can become enormously influential. With social media having such a powerful reach, it is bound…
Paul Abela, MSc
Blogger and systems thinker | Place a lens on the social, economic and political causes of the climate crisis | Visit my website and blog at transformatise.com
