Therapy culture pathologizes normal human responses
How therapeutic discourse transforms ordinary human reactions into disorders requiring professional intervention
Time Management Ideology Treats Temporal Experience as Efficiency Optimization
How the commodification of time transforms lived experience into productivity metrics, reducing human temporality to algorithmic optimization.
Urban planning prioritizes property values over community needs
How cities systematically design spaces that maximize real estate returns while destroying human social fabric
Viral culture rewards lowest common denominator thinking
How viral mechanics systematically degrade intellectual discourse by optimizing for the most simplistic responses across the largest possible audience.
Virtue ethics individualizes systemic moral failures
How character-based moral frameworks serve as sophisticated deflection mechanisms from structural problems
Voice recognition systems discriminate against accented speech
How algorithmic voice processing creates systematic value hierarchies that privilege standard speech patterns while marginalizing linguistic diversity.