Self-help blames victims
The self-help industry transforms structural failures into individual character defects, making victims responsible for systems designed to exploit them.
Sharing concentrates ownership
The sharing economy promised distributed ownership but delivered the opposite: unprecedented concentration of control in platform monopolies.
Shopping therapy commercializes
How the therapeutic framing of consumption transforms genuine healing into market transactions.
Skill building commodifies
The transformation of personal development into market products destroys the intrinsic value of learning and growth.
Smart cities surveil
The value proposition of smart cities is surveillance dressed as convenience. Every sensor is a watching eye, every optimization an intrusion.
Social media isolates
Connection technology that destroys connection itself
Sport distracts politics
How organized sports function as deliberate political distraction mechanisms, redirecting citizen energy from governance to entertainment spectacle.
Stormwater management protects development over natural systems
How stormwater infrastructure reveals the hierarchy of values in urban development - protecting capital investment while systematically degrading natural water cycles.
Support groups extract
How therapeutic communities monetize vulnerability and transform healing into a subscription service
Sustainability maintains growth
How sustainability discourse serves to legitimize continued expansion rather than challenge growth paradigms