Wellness Culture Is a Painkiller, Not a Cure 
Synthetic History and the Silent Memory-Hole 
The Ghost Economy of Micro-Compliance 
Normal Has Become Radical 
We Don’t Buy Products Anymore… 
Wellness Culture Is a Painkiller, Not a Cure
I sat down to write this from a cave. That’s not a metaphor, or at...
Synthetic History and the Silent Memory-Hole
We have spent centuries worrying about people burning books, and for fairly obvious reasons. Book...
The Ghost Economy of Micro-Compliance
Our fridge out here runs on a solar array, a leisure battery the size of...
Normal Has Become Radical
Nobody announced it. There wasn’t a press conference. No government minister stood behind a lectern...
We Don’t Buy Products Anymore…
We Buy Permission I have found myself increasingly fascinated by something that most of us...
The Emptiness They’re Selling You
I live somewhere that gets called “wild” a lot. People picture me sat outside a...
The Illusion on Shelf Four
How Marketers Taught Us to Eat Sludge and Call It Natural Walk into a modern...
The Middle Class Didn’t Declare War on the Social Contract.
They Just Stopped Returning Its Calls. Our water comes from a reservoir that fails whenever...
The Hidden Cost of Environmental Neglect:
Groundwater, Insects, and Food Security I live in a cave. I want to get that...
The Stories We Never Hear
Every morning begins in much the same way. A cup of coffee, a glance at...