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…
Tag: Corruption
Theft by Individualism
In the city, there were two ways to get electricity. One was the government’s: official, clunky, always breaking down, but built on the dim hope of something better someday. The other was the people’s: a tangle of stolen wires, hooks, and half-baked cleverness that kept the lights flickering just long enough to fool everyone into…