A meditation on the relentless frictions of modern life — the subtle and not-so-subtle forces that chip away at our clarity, autonomy, and inner grounding — and a call to return to what is real, what is simple, and what is ours.
Tag: authenticity
We’ve been told to “fake it until we make it,” as if pretending our way through life will somehow bring us truth. But pretending has a price — one paid in authenticity, integrity, and the quiet collapse of self.
Every so often, a truth we’ve lived by begins to fracture. What once felt steady and self-evident no longer holds. The mind resists, the heart hesitates, and we question how something once sacred could suddenly feel hollow. Yet this breaking is not collapse — it’s transformation. The moment a past truth gives way, we stand at the threshold of what’s next, if only we’re willing to look beyond the shards and keep walking.
Modern society clings to the belief that money can solve anything — that if only the wealthy shared their abundance, poverty and crime would vanish. It’s an appealing notion, simple and comforting, but also profoundly deceptive. For beneath every call for charity lies a deeper design: a world engineered to keep people dependent, distracted, and divided, while power remains untouched.
How to Get Away from the Crazy
Most people feel it long before they can name it — the quiet sense that something fundamental is off in the way we live, work, and organize our lives. We move through routines that drain us, systems that demand obedience, and structures that promise progress while hollowing out the very things that make us human. Beneath the noise, a deeper truth keeps pressing through the cracks — that much of what we’ve accepted as normal is anything but natural, and the cost of participating grows heavier by the year. This piece is an attempt to trace that unease back to its source, to examine the mechanisms that keep us compliant, and to consider what becomes possible once we stop pretending the modern world is built on anything real.