Category: Non Fiction
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The Great American Newsletter
Substack has become an anthropological study in creative calcification. Writers publicly transforming into content strategists, thinkers becoming take-generators, artists evolving into audience builders. It’s fascinating to watch in real time—the slow fossilization of creative ambition. Here’s how it happens: Someone starts a newsletter to share their work. Within months, they’re writing about writing newsletters. Within…
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The Analogy-Industrial Complex
Good evening, my fellow citizens. Three decades ago, the creators of content were few and proud, toiling under the noble constraints of gatekeepers, editors, and that most ancient of traditions—actually needing to prove one’s worth. But today, my friends, we find ourselves at the mercy of a new and insidious force: the Analogy-Industrial Complex, a…
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The Great Atlantic Dog Show
I arrived in Brussels at dawn, trailing the scent of duty-free bourbon and whatever questionable chemicals I’d ingested somewhere over the Atlantic. The city had the feel of an overgrown bank lobby, marble and bureaucracy stretching endlessly in every direction, occupied by men who had long since traded their souls for mid-tier diplomatic immunity. It…
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What’s the Cosmos Punchline You Are Waiting For?
I keep waiting for the punchline. A cosmic punchline, to be specific. Maybe a booming voice from the heavens to drop the gag and clear the smoke, because it sure as hell can’t be real. What kind of sick joke have we wandered into this time? The war in Ukraine—stalemated and bloody, grinding on like…
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The Sacred Composables and the Shrugging of Genocide:
Jesus Christ, I thought the acid had finally kicked in when I first saw it. There, scrawled like the fever dream of a tech-bro shaman who’d binged too much DMT, was a new commandment. Something that felt lifted from the bowels of Silicon Valley’s most unholy boardroom meetings—a declaration that took a jagged turn off…
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The Little Colonel
The three industrialists sat in a plush room, smoke curling from cigars, their sharp suits immaculate, reflecting the wealth of a world still emerging from a previous conflict. The polished oak table between them bore half-drained crystal glasses. Outside, the rhythmic hum of a factory provided a comforting backdrop to their conversation. Industrialist 1 (Herr…
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Financialization: The Hair Metalization of Technology
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the tech industry underwent a significant transformation, driven primarily by the forces of financialization. This shift has led to the criticism that modern tech, much like hair metal in the 1980s, has become more about flashy appearances than substantive innovation. The comparison between tech and hair metal…
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Money Should Be Free
Imagine a world where money flows like words through the airwaves, a filthy river of greenbacks coursing through every gutter and alley, seeping into the cracks of society, soaking the earth, drowning the parasites and the predators alike. A glorious torrent, unfettered by the iron bars of bank vaults, slipping past the sticky fingers of…
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Enlightenment
Enlightenment? The moment that word escapes your lips, it’s already too late—hell, the process was doomed the second you started groping for it. Enlightenment isn’t some neat package you can just unwrap with the right amount of meditation or overpriced retreats. No, it’s a sucker’s game, a rigged hustle that’s been racketized beyond recognition. It’s…
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Reverse Koan/Inverted Aphorisms
You’re deep in the throes of a typical day in this topsy-turvy carnival of madness we call life. There’s the chaos of the freeway, the cacophony of the news, and somewhere, a lunatic ranting about the virtues of conformity on a soapbox. And if you’ve ever try dabbled in the dark arts of irony or…