Heavily featuring white male fragility displayed through patterns of behaviour that are surprisingly acceptable and relatable through an enforced and acquired palate for colonial hegemony — Coloniser human beings and colonised human beings are very trainable. With the right incentives, training just takes time. A reminder of our contexts White Europeans destroyed their ecocentric indigenous cultures a thousand years ago (“Burn her at the stake!”), pursuing a growth-based empire model centred upon the city of excess consumption for the ruling classes…

It’s late morning on a Thursday in mid-December in a sleepy middle-aged suburb on the edges of Metro Manila, Philippines. A hundred birds chirp cheerfully at the overcast sky. It’s not too hot to be out and about. …

The Hindu Maha Puranas describe the present as the mere beginning of the worst of the four world ages: the age of conflict and sin, marked by strife, discord, quarrel or contention. The Kali Yuga lasts 432,000 years, and we’re 5,122 years in. It’s entirely plausible that the world began…

As things fall apart, do you hold on tight to the superstructures that are crumbling, or worse, that have already crumbled away? Or do you jump, flail, and eventually learn how to enjoy flailing within the reality of the cyclical dynamic destruction-creation that is life within civilisational collapse? Wait actually…

Short answer — two prongs: direct action and systemic intervention. But it’s not that simple or straightforward. I hope you like metaphors, because I have an Analogy House for you — it’s an analogy for breaking colonial hegemony. I modelled it in SketchUp freehand and everything. You are, or have…

This is a transcript of Tyson Yunkaporta’s talk at Media Futures Hub, University of New South Wales, in late May 2021. What’s the difference between good story and bad story? You gotta have your foundational narratives right. Let’s kick off with some story with the word smart — smart…