economics
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Coercion Capitalism
How the Public Soul Became Corporate Leverage For over a century, the mythos of modern democracy rested on a tidy binary: the Citizen and the Consumer. As consumers, we shaped the economy through our choices in the marketplace. As citizens,… Continue reading
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The Modern Homestead
Navigating the coming famine through Managerial Realism. We are standing on the threshold of a quiet, inevitable shift. For decades, our culture operated under a grand, seductive promise: that tomorrow would always be cheaper, easier, faster, and more comfortable than… Continue reading
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A Continuous Political Campaign Culture
We are already mostly there. Might as well use the technology to secure democracy. Technology—when stripped of its current role as a hyper-individualistic entertainment engine—becomes the ultimate diagnostic tool for assessing cognitive bandwidth, emotional regulation, and systemic awareness. Rather than… Continue reading
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The Adult in the Room
An introduction to Managerial Realism. (Or, me and my AI buddy take over the world.) American politics has long been trapped in a perpetual, exhausting domestic dispute. On one side of the aisle stands a faction obsessed with market purity… Continue reading
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Some Political Perspective
Modeling a path forward. The Prompt: Write a description, in modern American style, that explores what it would look like if a new political party tried to establish itself during a severe economic decline, while the established leaders behaved like… Continue reading
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Evolutions and Scale
Comparing the evolution of different levels of individuality with computers, factories, and AI. The concept of human evolution is often framed through a purely biological lens, of random genetic shifts slowly filtered by environmental pressures over millennia. Yet, human progress… Continue reading
