Climate action maintains
How environmental activism preserves the very systems it claims to challenge
Coaching sells hope
The coaching industry has perfected the commodification of human potential, transforming personal transformation into a subscription service for manufactured optimism.
Community development enables
How community development programs function as sophisticated value extraction and behavioral control mechanisms.
Community gardens gentrify neighborhoods
How grassroots community organizing becomes a tool for displacement through value reframing
Conservation displaces people
How environmental conservation systematically prioritizes abstract nature over concrete human lives, creating a value hierarchy that serves power structures.
Courts process inequality
Justice systems don't resolve inequality—they systematically process and legitimize it through procedural theater.
Crime prevention blames
How crime prevention systems create blame hierarchies that obscure their fundamental failure to prevent crime
Cultural diversity homogenizes
The systematic pursuit of cultural diversity produces the exact opposite of its stated goal—a flattened, commodified monoculture dressed in multicultural aesthetics.
Cultural preservation freezes
The paradox of preservation: how attempts to save culture kill what makes it valuable