The Four Horsemen of The Apocalyptic Drain Game

We were told these were just “hard times.” A tough winter. A glitch in the market. A blip in the system.
But what if the system isn’t broken – what if it’s working exactly as intended?

What if the rising bills, the hospital delays, the collapsing classrooms and burning landscapes aren’t separate crises – but all part of the same cruel ride?

Welcome to The Drain Game.
A system designed to suck the life out of the many to enrich the few – and stink while doing it.

Here ride the Four Horsemen of this engineered apocalypse:

The Price of Survival

— The Cost of Living Crisis

You work, you hustle, you sacrifice – and you’re still short at the end of the month.

• Inflation up. Wages flat. Profits record-breaking.
• Your rent heats someone else’s holiday home.
• You’re boiling the kettle to warm the room.

Cruelty Mechanism: Manufactured scarcity, precarity as discipline, shame as control.
Resistance: Mutual aid, local food networks, rent strikes, and the radical act of saying enough.

CRISIS OF CRUELTY SERIES: The Price of Survival

The Business of Sickness

— The Healthcare Crisis

Your body breaks, but the system shrugs.

• Public services gutted.
• Nurses burnt out.
• Private clinics booming.

Cruelty Mechanism: Withhold care to funnel you toward profit. Use burnout as strategy.
Resistance: Strikes, solidarity, patient power, radical rest, and community-first health.

CRISIS OF CRUELTY SERIES: The Business of Sickness

The Factory of Forgetting

— The Education Crisis

Our children deserve better – but instead they get overcrowded rooms, broken radiators, and stressed teachers.

• Schools underfunded, teachers undervalued.
• College fees rising, literacy dropping.
• Creativity crushed by the grind of testing.

Cruelty Mechanism: Dumbing down to manage dissent. Turning students into customers.
Resistance: Learning circles, co-ops, homegrown wisdom, and education as liberation.

CRISIS OF CRUELTY SERIES: The Factories of Forgetting

The Greenwashed Graveyard

— The Environmental Crisis

They tell you to recycle while they torch the planet for profit.

• Corporate polluters greenwashing their crimes.
• Fossil fuels subsidised while biodiversity collapses.
• You’re guilt-tripped over bin bags while Shell gets a cheque.

Cruelty Mechanism: Resource theft disguised as progress. Blame shifted to the individual.
Resistance: Food sovereignty, climate reparations, eco-feminist organising, and community energy.

CRISIS OF CRUELTY SERIES: Greenwashing the Graveyard

These are not isolated issues.

They’re not unfortunate coincidences.

They are the orchestrated cruelty of The Drain Game—designed to keep us too tired, too broke, and too busy to fight back.

But we see them now.
And what we see – we name.
What we name – we resist.
What we resist – we can rebuild.