corporate dystopia

“Young people are just smarter,” Zuckerberg once said, in possibly the dumbest statement in American history. “There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed, in what might be the next dumbest.

The people of the past had no corporate agenda to the extent we do now. They simply found stimulation through their surroundings

It is no joke that universities have become a vessel for corporate training. These institutions have left behind the fostering of a love for academics the way it is made out to be. Even scholarship opportunities try to gauge the success you can bring in the workplace, forgetting their purpose of academic accessibility and brilliance. We no longer h... See more

“Wetiko is a cannibalizing force driven by insatiable greed, appetite without satisfaction, consumption as an end in itself, and war for its own sake, against other tribes, species, and nature, and even against the individual’s own humanity.” — Paul Levy, author of Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

It was a time before we discovered the truth behind social media, before we realized we had willingly submitted ourselves to the world’s largest data-mining facility, before we learned of the devious deeds of the overlords who controlled it, before we discovered the mental health side downsides, the brainwashing, the fake news, the election-swaying... See more

I played the game pretty well for a long time, and now it’s obvious to me that the reward for playing the game is more game . You just keep unlocking levels forever, and the levels don’t even get more interesting (“Ooh, this one is in space!”). It’s just the same thing over and over until you die. You don’t get out by winning ; you get out by stopp... See more

But can we hope for the right thing to happen when the capitalist addiction to relentless growth and prioritisation of profit over anything else remains the dominant force in our world?

Regardless of whether you’re working more or less, your nervous system is now plugged into a neurotic and hypersensitive globe-spanning information system that’s constantly pushing unnecessary things into your consciousness. Perversely, this information obesity actually makes us feel more sluggish . We might be moving faster, but everything starts ... See more