In the grand civic harvest, this polite annual ritual in which the regime tallies its legitimacy, the individual is not a reasoning creature but a unit of extraction. Officially a citizen, but functionally just a resource used by the system for attention, emotion, compliance, and finally the vote. Democracy at scale is a system primarily…
Month: February 2026
High Trust is Fragile
High-trust worlds are a dream. Leave your phone on a cafe table and it waits like a loyal dog. Kid strolls to the bus solo, no kidnapper paranoia. Buy a jar of pickles? Boom: actual fucking pickles! Not “brine with benefits” or some mindfulness spears bullshit with a self-help slogan like “Dill your way to…