Examinations of societal norms, political correctness, and systemic assumptions. These essays question established beliefs about excellence, normality, and accepted wisdom, offering nuanced alternatives to binary thinking in complex social territories.
We’ve created a thriving marketplace where empty words thrive, where profundity is packaged and sold by the hour, and where the ability to say nothing with great conviction has become a lucrative career path. The attention economy doesn’t merely benefit from bullshit: it structurally depends on it.
From wellness gurus certain about ancient wisdom to CEOs certain about the future—everyone's performing certainty while drowning in doubt. On the pathology of fake knowing and why admitting ignorance might save us all.
What are questions for, beyond making us search for answers?
We’ve moved beyond post-truth into something more insidious: post-depth. In this new landscape, wisdom becomes a product, complexity gets packaged into consumable portions, and profundity itself transforms into a surface performance.
From C-suites to cubicles, we've recreated medieval feudalism in modern offices. Executive elevators replace castle towers, MBAs substitute for noble titles, and 'cultural fit' ensures the aristocracy reproduces itself. Time to name what we see: corporate feudalism in designer suits.
When someone tells me I need to “think outside the box,” I develop a sort of metaphysical hives. The same happens with “step out of your comfort zone.” The reaction intensifies when these pearls of wisdom come from people so comfortably settled in their own enormous boxes.
