Posts Tagged "capitalism"

The Absurd Market: Love, Power, and Capital in Seoul's Digital Streets

In Seoul's trending hashtags, we find the eternal human struggle between authentic connection and the commodification of everything—including love, governance, and art.
Avery Newsome's avatar Avery Newsome

The Silicon Evangelists: How Market Mysticism Replaces Democratic Discourse

In our age of technological determinism, stock tickers have become the new scripture, and innovation the only gospel that matters—a dangerous conflation of progress with profit that threatens the very foundations of reasoned public debate.
George Pearson's avatar George Pearson

The Spectacle of Competition: A Chronicle of American Obsessions

From reality television brawls to basketball rivalries, our collective fixation on competition reveals not merely entertainment preferences, but the underlying economic anxieties of a society perpetually sorting winners from losers.
George Pearson's avatar George Pearson

The Absurd Ballet of Power: Wrestling, Blockchain, and the House of Saud

From the choreographed violence of the WWE ring to the digital utopianism of blockchain evangelists and the medieval barbarism dressed in Savile Row suits in Riyadh, we witness the same pageantry of dominance playing out across seemingly disparate stages.
George Pearson's avatar George Pearson

The Theatrics of Power: Public Figures and the Machinery of Capital

Today's trending topics offer a window into the intimate lives of public figures, revealing the underlying economic forces that shape our society and perpetuate the elite's control.
George Pearson's avatar George Pearson