philosophy essays

The interface is dying because the “User” is obsolete. On the post-user web, AI agents, friction economics, and the rise of adversarial…

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Across healthcare, bureaucracy, and customer service, systems increasingly avoid decisions while appearing responsive. This essay argues that modern…

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The loading screen is a weapon. "Pending" is a governing strategy of attrition designed to make you carry the weight of the process until you give up.

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We keep describing our institutional crisis as one of 'belief' or 'truth.' But in practice, the bottleneck is 'standing.' An essay on why 'we hear…

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A guide to the difference between moral language and structural constraint

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Stop assuming leadership is ignorant. "Tragic Institutionalism" argues that institutional harm is priced in, and your burnout is the fuel.

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From Chicago to Gaza, AI is turning "threat scores" into self-fulfilling prophecies. A critique of epistemic laundering and the automation of state…

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We build institutions for every crisis, then forget to give them an off-switch. This piece argues for “institutional apoptosis”: designing…

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We must reclaim the maintenance that keeps people alive rather than the one that keeps systems standing.

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A theory of Primitive Accumulation applied to time. Just as capitalism once enclosed land to create value where there was none, it is now enclosing…

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Modern efficiency hasn't solved volatility; it has just offloaded it onto you. An analysis of how the removal of buffers, inventory, and downtime…

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Exploring how modern systems are built around an imaginary “reasonable” user, blaming real people for design failure and arguing for infrastructures…

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Explore how system architecture, not intent, makes harm the path of least resistance in institutions. Learn why brittleness and structural fragility…

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Predictive systems don't "find patterns," they establish rules about who gets access, who faces scrutiny, whose harm matters less. Their builders…

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AI's fluency removes the friction that keeps our heads on straight. On lucid disorientation, and rebuilding resistance to machines that never say no.

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Critiquing the myth of self-sufficiency and outlining a new politics of shared dependence, where care, maintenance, and cooperation become the…

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We have a deep-seated instinct to punish what doesn’t fit. Here's how data, management, and moral culture pathologize deviation.

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Machines once bent to save people. Now people bend to save machines. A design essay on how digital systems reverse the ethics of safety, making…

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​A new framework for understanding persistence. This essay redefines stability, arguing that justice is the allocation of repair and proving…

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When "okay" stops being a feeling and becomes a clearance code, care collapses into compliance. A new essay on "clearance culture" and the ethics of…

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Why embracing human limits can make our relationships, ethics, and systems more resilient. An essay on how dependence and maintenance define love,…

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“Charismatic systems” replace persuasion with smoothness. From social media to AI ethics dashboards, design now governs through affect. This essay…

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The real danger isn't that AI is cold and inhuman; it's that it's becoming perfectly, fluently "kind." "Counterfeit tenderness" is a new form of…

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Before an institution can do immense harm, it must first learn to feel good about itself. It must learn to translate its contradictions into virtues…

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Hospitals, platforms, universities, and economies all improve the metrics that define success while quietly eroding the conditions that make those…

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The moral geometry of measurement, and how to read the metrics that lie without lying.

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We’ve measured morality by character for too long. The Architecture of Goodness argues that ethics must be designed, not preached, replacing heroism…

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When a society, an institution, or even a piece of software continually produces heroes, it offers clear evidence of a broken architecture.

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Longevity isn’t virtue. The systems that last the longest often do so by pushing their stress onto others. This is how survival turns into capture.

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We replaced repair with disposal. It’s time to build a more human world.

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A good system shouldn’t need saints. It should metabolize harm before someone has to transcend it.

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Why do we grill our loved ones harder than corporations or governments? Stricter in Love Than in Law reveals how modern institutions turn excuses…

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Feeling stuck or hollow in your career? This essay explains why the "career ladder" is a myth and a hidden "filter" rewards conformity over merit. A…

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​“Be real” is the gospel of our age, chanted by politicians claiming to speak from the heart, influencers in “no-filter” confessionals, and…

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From medical implants to insurance portals, from stress fractures to eviction notices, the physics of failure hasn’t changed. What’s changed is the…

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Why the same harms keep recurring, no matter who is in charge.

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What we call “vibes” today are the sedatives left after centuries of cutting survival out of culture

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How to Fight the Feeling and Reclaim Your Voice

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We often use lengthy explanations after a mistake to manage our own discomfort. But true accountability requires concrete steps, not just eloquent…

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Stop searching for an ethical AI CEO. The job is impossible. The problem isn't a lack of individual virtue, but a system that makes virtue a…

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The powerful have always used the language of weather and physics to enforce their will. The best counter isn't a better argument—it's seeing the…

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For more than a decade, we've treated misinformation as a problem of persuasion. Fact-checks, media literacy drives, AI detection tools all assume…

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Anarchism is often described like a bonfire: a political philosophy of no institutions, no coordination, just a perpetual “no.” But the anarchist…

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Sacralization is power’s aftermarket armor. It’s the trick that makes the preventable untouchable.

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The political question isn’t if shocks arrive, but where the load lands. This essay reframes “policy” as applied physics—and legitimacy as a…

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How hostile systems draft us into our own denial

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“Fickleness” is not always a moral failure; it’s fair to oscillate between incompatible demands.

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On Revision Privilege, a system that quietly distributes grace to the powerful while demanding finality from everyone else

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Resisting rule by expertise is not anti-science or anti-technology; it is a defense of democracy

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The tell of empire isn’t its power, but the sheer work required to maintain its appearance of inevitability.

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An idea can be banned without being outlawed; when the direct route is blocked by formal censorship or the chill of algorithmic disfavor, ideas…

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It’s quick, flattering, incomplete, and it puts the problem in human nature, not in the systems shaping people’s lives. But is it true?

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It’s a neat, tidy, and incredibly convenient fantasy for cops, bosses, and security guards.

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Are they really helping or just trying to take control? Here's how to know.

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Try it tonight and see what happens.

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Tiny, everyday verbs like must, should, may, ought, have to, and need to function as subtle carriers of authority

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There’s a peculiar contradiction at the heart of modern public policy: Propose universal provision—unconditional meals, healthcare, housing, or…

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How Denial Became a Revenue Stream—and What It Will Take to Break the Machine

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It’s structural, intentional, and systemic.

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Ask someone outside the US to describe American life, and they might mention sprawling homes, last-minute December donations, business trips that…

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American power has long been driven by what I call an “ergonomic ideal”: squeezing every bit of extraction out of a system while disguising or…

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Why Denial Is the Core of Structural Power

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Power’s greatest conquest isn’t crushing lone rebels or dispersing crowds—it’s sneaking into the everyday interpersonal bonds we rely on.

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We’ve grown so accustomed to equating silence with peace that we overlook the heavy toll it exacts.

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I nearly scrapped this draft because I’d already unpacked institutional forgetting in The Amnesia Engine. My inner editor—raised on Omit needless…

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Capitalism doesn’t just cut corners—it cuts people out.

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What happens when grief is routinized? When mourning scripts follow mass shootings, airstrikes, or police violence—but policy doesn’t move?

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I don’t want you to just avoid burnout, I want you to see labor as a site of struggle, defaults as political choices, and for us to reforge our…

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To confront planetary crisis meaningfully, we must insist on refusal, accountability, and explicit, structural consent.

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When systemic harm is repeated, profitable, and structured, complexity is not an explanation. It’s an alibi.

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How institutions metabolize critique, erase context, and make crisis their only teacher

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Why neutrality isn’t fairness—and what it hides when institutions say it is.

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Seamlessness isn’t always neutral. It’s often subsidized—by someone else’s time, attention, and emotional capacity.

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You open your phone to check the news; twenty minutes later you’re overstimulated and underinformed.

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While conventional thinking holds that only big bureaucracies can deliver universal healthcare, anarchist practices illustrate a very different…

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You arrive at the hospital from the airport, taking MARTA straight to Northside.

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Why Waiting for Boomers to Disappear Won’t Save Us

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When does cunning becomes a strategic choice? Or, why are shitty people so wealthy?

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Why “No” Makes Every “Yes” More Real

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We Grew Up Asking If We’d Get To Have Kids. Now We’re Asking If We Even Should.

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Real Cheaters Slip Away While the Vulnerable Get Flagged

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AI won’t rescue us from our own willingness to discard people—it just magnifies it.

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We live in an environment flooded with illusions.

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Are You Afraid of Being Too Big An Ask?

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Once you label entire groups “too expensive,” friction-based eugenics is always just one step away

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Most institutions—hospitals, welfare agencies, workplaces, schools—claim to prioritize “care,” “efficiency,” or “fairness.” Yet behind polished…

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We keep witnessing departures that resist easy explanation:

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Or, Why We Can’t Debias Our Way Out of a System Built to Exclude

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Gatekeeping is what blocks care, not scarcity.

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Reactionaries Will Use Disability Statistics to Justify Technofascist Control

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