As the extractive global economy violates Earth’s planetary boundaries at an accelerating pace, the harbingers of catastrophe abound. Yet for many, quotidian life proceeds with business-as-usual. Despite the proliferation of permacrises, modernity’s systems and structures are so deeply rooted in the collective psyche that it can be difficult to think beyond them. This yarn traces the coarse wires of structural inequality and the long, violent history of Europatriarchal racial capitalism that has entrenched the hierarchy of being and the relentless commodification of all things sacred.