Democracy is Slow Motion Murder-Suicide

You wanna know what democracy really is? It’s a murder-suicide with ballots instead of bullets. Just ask Justin Fairfax, former Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Dude shot his wife then ate his own gun. Boom. Perfect metaphor. Because that’s exactly what your government is doing to you. Slowly, painfully, while smiling and calling it “progress.” They…

Surveillance State Support

I used to be dead set against this whole surveillance state thing. I mean, come on, it sounded like the worst kind of dystopian nightmare, right? Cameras everywhere, watching you buy your groceries, filming you while you’re just trying to scratch an itch in public without starting a riot. Big Brother with a better battery…

Getting Away From Diversity

The central project of late-modern society is not progress, not equality, not even “inclusion.” It is escape. The entire machinery of middle-class life, its labor, its debt, its rituals of credentialism and consumption, is engineered for one purpose: to purchase distance from diversity. Observe the pattern with the cold eye it deserves. A family does…

Social Construction

You walk into a situation and you think you are entering reality. A work meeting. A date. Some social event where everyone is holding a drink and pretending they are not nervous. But most of the time you are not walking into reality at all. You are walking onto a set. A lot of what…