GDP worship has become a meaningless cult
How a century-old accounting metric became the universal measure of human progress, and why this worship is fundamentally destructive to actual value creation.
Human worth becomes obsolete in post-human systems
As systems optimize beyond human comprehension, the very metrics by which we measure human value become irrelevant variables in equations we no longer control.
Inequality is a feature not a bug
Why systemic inequality serves the powerful by design, not accident
Influencer culture transforms personality into commodity
How the influencer economy systematically converts human personality traits into marketable products, creating a new form of alienation where authentic self-expression becomes impossible.
Innovation worship destroys more than it creates
The cult of innovation systematically destroys functional systems, relationships, and knowledge while producing marginal improvements wrapped in revolutionary rhetoric.
Merit-based society is the great deception
How meritocracy serves as ideological cover for predetermined hierarchies while making victims complicit in their own subordination.
Meritocracy rewards inherited advantages while claiming fairness
The meritocratic ideal functions as a legitimization mechanism for pre-existing hierarchies, transforming inherited privilege into earned virtue.
Nihilism is the only honest value system left
When every value system serves someone else's agenda, rejecting all values becomes the most truthful position.
Retirement planning assumes capitalism will survive forever
The entire retirement planning industry is built on the assumption that current economic systems will persist indefinitely, revealing our inability to imagine systemic change.