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Declining Birth Rates Are a Good Thing, Actually
It’s not the fall of civilization — it’s a chance to save it.
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You’re Wasting Your Life
Every day you're in this place, you're two days nearer death.
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Parenting Was Meant To Take a Village
How capitalism atomized families and fucked us all over.
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If Not Climate Change, Then Greed and Stupidity
The end of the Anthropocene.
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Bread, Circuses, and Medals: The Olympics as Late Capitalism’s Swan Song
A spectacle no one needs.
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Hear Me Out: Summer Vacation for Adults
Because why should kids have all the fun?
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Withering Away in the Office
Please just automate this shit away and let us live.
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The “Anarchy” of Egoism: Max Stirner’s Radical Individualism
No gods, no masters — no rights, no duties, nothing?
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The Internet Feels Dead, Doesn’t It?
From punk rock to adult contemporary. (And back again?)
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A Very Short History of Working Class Struggle
From the dawn of agriculture to the coming age of artificial intelligence.
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To Conform and To Perform
Freedom is a lie.
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Everything Is About To Change
Beneath the pavement, there is turmoil.
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Perhaps You Should Quit Your High-Paying, Stressful Job
(And think about what makes YOU happy.)
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The False Dream of Cottagecore
How the problematic romanticization of Western rural life reveals our discontent with the modern world.
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Beneath the Pavement
Beneath the Pavement
Burn down the system, not yourself. A publication for those who crave radical change, featuring the abyss of human existence.
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