culture

We engineered boredom out of existence and lost something we cannot get back from a screen.

The 'finding yourself' narrative assumes a fixed self waiting to be discovered. Identity is constructed, revised, and performed -- and that's more freeing than any gap year.

Every authoritarian movement sells a mythologized past. The longing is real. The history is fabricated.

Free access to information, open to everyone, no purchase required. If someone proposed public libraries today, they would be called a socialist.

The self-made billionaire is a myth that serves a political function, and it is time to retire it.

In a secular, atomized society, stadiums are one of the few places where strangers still cry together without irony.

Your grandparents repaired everything. You throw everything away. This isn't a generational virtue difference.

You don't choose what you see. Systems choose for you, optimizing for engagement, not understanding. Culture is increasingly machine-curated.

We replaced church with other rituals. They're just less honest about what they are.