Of Two Minds

No wonder so many people devote themselves to curating an artificial digital representation of themselves that they reckon is worthy of recognition and status.

Mere mortals are left in a hopeless situation. In response, they’re withdrawing from the competition en masse.

Sound of coins rattling in a battered bowl.

That this level of incendiary outrage has seeped into the mainstream media tells us that
the bill for America’s gluttony of inequality is long overdue.

Parsing geopolitics is fun but our attention is better directed to the limits and second-order effects of legacy systems in each of the rival states.

Behind the facade of normalization, even high-income lifestyles have been ghetto-ized.