Indentured servitude was once a contract entered into with the hope of escape—escape from poverty, from stagnation, from a life that promised nothing beyond mere subsistence. It was a promise of eventual freedom, bought at the cost of years of toil. Today, the contract is less explicit, but the structure…
“Superhubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World” by Sandra Navidi – a review
The world of global finance is often seen as a battleground of individual titans—billionaires, hedge fund wizards, central bankers—each seemingly acting of their own accord, moving markets with sheer force of will. But in Superhubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World, Sandra Navidi dismantles that myth,…
A Perfect Storm: The Economic Collapse of 2025-2026
The world economy is no stranger to upheaval. The Great Depression, the stagflation of the 1970s, the dot-com bubble, and the 2008 financial crisis each had their own catalysts—stock market crashes, oil price shocks, financial mismanagement. What we’re seeing now, however, is different. The crisis unfolding in 2025 isn’t just…
Beyond Money: A Society Built on Contribution
The measure of value in any society determines its shape. For centuries, money has been the standard by which we assess worth. It dictates access, defines opportunity, and reduces human relations to transactions. We think of wealth in terms of accumulation, of resources stored rather than acts performed. But what…
The Footprint of a Man
There is a certain kind of fellow who drifts through life as a leaf upon the wind, content to neither hinder nor help, and another who, like the ox, treads heavily and thoughtlessly, leaving a rut where once there was firm ground. Then there is the rare man who moves…
How to Make Any Life More Fulfilling
Dream, Create, Grow—these three words sum up a philosophy that echos the essence of the human journey. They are not just actions; they are principles that define who we are, what we strive for, and the legacy we leave behind. To live fully is to embrace these three pillars as…
The Economy of Life: Restoring Balance in Human Exchange
To speak of economy is to speak of life itself, for the exchange of goods and labor is nothing other than the exchange of life’s effort, its breath, its toil. A society that organizes this exchange must do so with an awareness that what is being passed from hand to…
The Indifference of the Well-Fed
I have often thought that man, left to his own devices, is much like the housecat—content to nap in a sunny spot until the house catches fire. At that moment, he will leap from his slumber, all senses engaged, tail aflame, and make a grand show of his escape. But…
Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” – in his own words?
And so it starts with me, Sal Paradise, yearning for something more, restless, rolling cigarettes in a dim New York room, feeling the weight of time pressing down on my bones. Then Dean Moriarty blazes into my life like a comet, crazy and hungry and full of wild laughter, this…
The Debt That Binds Us: Obligation and the Fabric of Human Connection
The nature of obligation is such that it precedes us, as light precedes the dawn. Before a child knows how to speak, before she can name herself as an “I,” she is already held in a web of duties, spoken or unspoken. She is fed, clothed, touched, and looked upon,…