How the preservation industry transforms authentic community memory into sanitized tourist products, revealing the systematic subordination of local values to economic extraction.
The supposedly universal framework of human rights systematically ranks suffering, creating institutional mechanisms that determine whose pain matters and whose doesn't.
How journalism education has been systematically captured to produce compliant information workers rather than independent journalists
How the local food movement's moral framework obscures systemic inequalities while reinforcing class-based consumption patterns
How Western mindfulness industry systematically extracts profit-friendly elements while discarding Buddhism's radical social teachings
How language learning has been reduced to a human capital investment strategy, stripping away its deeper cultural and cognitive value.
How peer review transforms from quality control into ideological conformity enforcement, systematically eliminating research that challenges established paradigms.
How measurement systems transform human worth into data points, creating a reductive framework that fundamentally misunderstands what makes humans valuable.
How the positive psychology movement reframes rational responses to dysfunctional systems as individual psychological defects