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…
Tag: Society
Builders Again
My friends! Let’s speak plainly, the way people speak when they actually mean what they say. We are standing at a threshold. The world is reorganizing around intelligence – human intelligence amplified by machines – and the nations that thrive will be the nations that choose a direction and then build toward it with discipline….
Pretending Not To Notice
A society does not fall apart because one day everyone forgets how to behave. It falls apart because the people in charge stop caring whether things work, and start caring whether things look correct. They begin treating public life like a stage. They manage impressions, not results. They punish the people who point out the…
Leftism is Infantalism
A lot of leftism these days feels like someone just slapped a political label onto a guy who never learned how to do his own laundry? I mean, remember when you were a kid – like a teenager, say – and you’d get all furious at the world because you, I don’t know, got a…
Censorshipism
The sun rose, indifferent, over the gray city. Its light, pale and unfeeling, filtered through the thick clouds that perpetually shrouded the skyline. In the streets below, the people moved like shadows, their voices hushed, their eyes downcast. In this world, words were currency, and like all currency, they were regulated. The government, a looming…
Democracy Fragility
Democracy is a porcelain doll so delicate and breakable that even a whisper of criticism sends it into a frenzy of self-defense and denial. You see, democracy is a system that can’t handle the truth. It would rather hide behind its facade than confront its flaws. Instead of addressing real issues, democracy doubles down to…