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…

Redundancy is Social Cancer

Redundancy explains everything. The office, once humming with the dull inertia of half-hearted ambition, is revealed for what it always was: a holding pen for the unnecessary. Middle management, strategy liaisons, communications coordinators – titles as hollow as the souls they housed. These were not roles created out of need, but out of fear: fear…