“Louvre heist aesthetic” is the rare TikTok we can enjoy guilt-free. As Caity Weaver put it: “How nice to read about a heist rather than a massacre.”

When rules multiply faster than reasons, people stop believing in the law itself.

The republic that once tamed the frontier has bureaucratized it.

because attention is now the collateral of the empire, suffering must remain visible. Poverty, loneliness, and humiliation are no longer side effects — they are content categories . Every crisis becomes a genre.

The new American dream is not freedom; it is clear instructions .

A nation that once exported productivity now exports volatility, and when that too fails, it begins to export its pain .

Behind the mask of order lies exhaustion.

Compliance feeds on anxiety, and America manufactures anxiety better than anyone

The machinery of accountability runs perfectly — and accounts for nothing.