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.
Category: Journal Entries
thoughts, ponderings, experiences and lessons learned. or, something deep and life-changing.
A moment comes when the excuses fall away and the truth becomes impossible to ignore. What you do next — that’s where your real life begins.
The future is not a machine waiting to consume us. It’s a mirror, showing us the depth of our dependence and the reach of our imagination. What we call progress is only as real as the awareness we bring to it.
They call it governance, but it’s really a theater of control — power masquerading as service, illusion dressed up as structure. We’re conditioned to accept the con, to mistake permission for freedom, and to forget the true cost of compliance. This isn’t a revelation. It’s a remembering. A call to look again at what’s been normalized, to question what’s been quietly killing the soul.
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.