Every day the political class announces another initiative, pledge, roadmap or “ambitious target.” And every day, the material reality moves closer to total collapse. At some point, we must confront a simple truth: the elites are not failing accidentally — they are participating in a death project.
This is not just incompetence. It is not even simple greed. What we are witnessing is something deeper and more pathological — a mixture of elite degeneration, the death wish, and a civilisation unable to confront its own end.
Do we want a place in this miracle?
We live in a universe – do we want a place in this infinite miracle?
Do we want to stand for life?
Do we want to live rather than die?
Because at this point — to repeat a million times — we have become revolutionaries. Not in the neoliberal performative identity-bollocks way. But actually, literally revolutionary.
Even Colombian President Gustavo Petro put it plainly:
“I know that decarbonisation requires a transformation on a global scale, a revolution. But it must be undertaken if humanity is to live on for millennia.”
The death wish: why elites act against their own survival
The biggest misunderstanding in the world is that people act out of material self-interest.
No. Many people want to die — and want the world to die with them.
- Freud’s theory of the death drive (Thanatos).
- Erich Fromm on elite necrophilia.
- Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death.
- Terror Management Theory.
This pattern fits the present far better than any rational-actor model.
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer – The Guardian
Even the weather becomes a crime, not a climate
The Irish example illustrates this perfectly…
John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees
The Iron Law of History
The removal of jury trials is not a solution to crisis — it is a symptom of terminal decline.
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury – The Guardian
Just Do It
“Just do it” is not realism. It is denial.
Keeping promises on renewables would avoid nearly 1°C – The Guardian
Conclusion: Revolution or Death
The elites will not save us because they cannot save themselves.
