When Reality Reads Like a Rough Draft
An exploration of why reality feels increasingly fictional, examining how our era's overwhelming contradictions and impossible timing might indicate we're living inside the most sophisticated form of entertainment ever created. Through the lens of an artist born at the dawn of the technological revolution, the essay argues that what feels like chaos is actually creative abundance—suggesting our existence might be a cosmic narrative so advanced we've forgotten we're experiencing a constructed story.
People Before Profits: How Social Democracy Can Rescue the American Dream
An examination of how extreme wealth inequality has transformed America into a nation of billionaires and food banks, where healthcare bankrupts families and education creates debt slaves. Through contrasting Nordic social democracy with American hyper-capitalism, the essay exposes how trickle-down economics has failed while progressive taxation, universal healthcare, and living wages have succeeded elsewhere. Arguing that capitalism needs guardrails rather than replacement, it presents social democratic reforms as the path to rescuing the American Dream from oligarchy and restoring human dignity over corporate profits.
Sanctuary of Almost
So many days spent in coffee shops, telling myself I’d write, but never etching a single word. I always thought the café would be the key to unlocking me. Turns out, living in a prison of anxiety does a great job of locking up the creative process. So, I had to come up with an escape plan. And, in a way, it was a literal one.
Cash for Convicts: An American Injustice
An examination of how America's for-profit prison system has transformed justice into a business model built on human suffering. Through the lens of occupancy quotas, recidivism cycles, and corporate profit margins, the essay exposes how rehabilitation takes a backseat to revenue generation. Contrasting punitive American approaches with successful Nordic rehabilitation models, it argues for dismantling a morally bankrupt system that enriches shareholders while breaking communities, ultimately calling for justice reform grounded in human dignity rather than quarterly earnings.
And So It Goes
Israel continues its deadly actions in Gaza with the backing of U.S. tax dollars. This is the moment that broke me. The two-party system is a joke; both sides are complicit in the violence. Biden standing by Netanyahu is not something I can support. We say we care about human rights, but are we really okay with this? If we aren’t demanding a ceasefire, do we even have convictions? It’s time to wake up and demand change.
No Such Thing As Nothing
I had this realization one day while deep in the throes of an excruciating depressive episode. Cursing God, the designer of the simulation, the alien, the gamer; whoever the hell was responsible for all of this. I couldn't take it. I still can't. How do we live with the state of – not just the world, but – existence itself? The whole questionably mixed bag. How can love so deeply felt for life and the living be at such odds with the state of things? The chaos, the contradictions, the conflict?