Index
Below you’ll find everything I ever published on Beneath the Pavement. This list is updated regularly.
Essays
(Newest appear first.)
The “Anarchy” of Egoism: Max Stirner’s Radical Individualism
No gods, no masters — no rights, no duties, nothing?
The Internet Feels Dead, Doesn’t It?
From punk rock to adult contemporary. (And back again?)
A Very Short History of Working Class Struggle
From the dawn of agriculture to the coming age of artificial intelligence.
Freedom is a lie.
Beneath the pavement, there is turmoil.
Perhaps You Should Quit Your High-Paying, Stressful Job
(And think about what makes YOU happy.)
The False Dream of Cottagecore
How the problematic romanticization of Western rural life reveals our discontent with the modern world.
AI, Capitalism, and the Collapse of Industrial Society
Capitalism turns all technological breakthroughs into nightmare fuel. Can artificial intelligence escape its grasp?
It All Ends in a Boring Dystopia
Why the world feels bland and unchangeable.
When Stability Feels Like Suffocation
The psychology of craving societal collapse and embracing the insanity of radical change.
Life Is All About Work, Didn’t You Know?
You were made to generate corporate profits. You live at the mercy of abstract concepts. Why can't you accept this?
Why You Feel So Fucking Lonely
Capitalist cultural hegemony turned a species based on cooperation and community into legions of solitary contestants.
The Children Yearn for the Mines
The inevitable return of child labor in the West.
Melancholia for a Summer That Never Was
It was never real.
Violence Is Our Way: The Great Delusion of Civilization
Beneath the pretense of benevolence lurks savage conquest.
A lament for the natural world.
The Childfree Are Ungovernable
Why the capitalist ruling class wants you to have as many children as possible.
Why having children is a moral dilemma.
Humanity’s lasting separation from its surroundings, and the catastrophic subjugation of all that lives.
Honey, Did We Consume Enough For Christmas?
A holiday to celebrate hollow capitalism. On the things that we lost and nostalgia for a different world.
The Man Weeping in the Parking Lot, Dreading Another Day at Work
The tragedy that is a pre-determined life of monotony.
None of us agreed to live like this, but still we do. Consent is implied.
The Morality of Celebrating Henry Kissinger’s Death
It finally happened. Henry Kissinger, godfather of neo-colonialism and neo-liberal exploitation, is dead. Rejoice, peoples of this world!
In the Pursuit of the Unattainable
The saga of a species that knows not its place.
Can Greta Lead the Coming Revolution?
The death of liberal-conservatism, and the rising potential for revolution.
Let's talk about the blood on our hands.
Olga Tokarczuk on animal liberation, collective crime, and guilt-free mass murder.
Perhaps the Collapse of Society Would Not Be Such a Bad Thing
The tragedy that is industrial humanity.
The Future Once Seemed So Bright. What Happened?
Nostalgia for the hope we lost along the way, and the dreams that never were. The 1990s will not return. We are the lost generation.
When Artists Must Prostitute Themselves, Society Breaks Down
The tragedy that is the poverty of mass-produced content.
The Government Does Not Speak for You. Then Why Do You Listen?
The divide between the state and its citizens has never been greater. Soon we will reach a breaking point.
Get Ready To Be Drafted Into War
The world is at war. And you will be part of it.
We Must Rediscover Our Ability To Imagine Different, Better Worlds
The world stands on the brink of dramatic change. As things are getting worse, it will fall to all of us to rebuild and make something better. Collapse can be an opportunity.
We Are Turning Into War-Mongering, Hateful, Genocidal Fascists and It’s Getting Worse
In the face of a depressing present and an even worse dystopian future, we are reverting to primitive tribalism and hate. A world at war, forever.
The Black-and-White Washing of Geopolitics: It’s Us Against the World
Liberal capitalism depends on producing clear enemies to justify its own contradictory existence. A tale as old as humanity itself.
And Palestine will be free.
Depression, Anxiety, ADHD, and so on Are on the Rise Because Modern Work Is (Mostly) Bullshit
My experiences and struggles with the corporate world and what I learned about myself. How to be happy when not fitting in.
I Have Discovered That Giving Up on the World Can Set You Free
I am tired. Exhausted from struggling and imagining a better world. I have given up, in a way. Yet I am cheery.
Is Stealing From Corporations Morally Correct? (Yes.)
More propaganda, more moral gaslighting, more bullshit. Steal! Feed your children and yourself. Steal all you will! Just do not get caught.
What capitalism's inevitable collapse, disaster anarchism, mutual aid, and human nature can teach us about the curious concept of Utopia.
Daddy, What’d Ya Leave Behind for Me?
How baby boomers did everything they could to leave behind a dystopia.
The modern human existence is one dominated by hollow experiences, bullshit, material consumption, and a constant sense of isolation and abandonment, despite being surrounded by masses of people. Why?
The Great Capitalist Lie (Part Three)
Hunger, crippling poverty, rising inequality — putting capitalist misery into concrete numbers. The evidence is clear: we live in a dystopian hellscape.
The Great Capitalist Lie (Part Two)
Endless hunger. How the capitalist machinery manipulates and adjusts statistics to tell feel-good stories of progress.
The Great Capitalist Lie (Part One)
On the myths of development and progress. As long as capitalism reigns supreme, poverty, hunger, and inequality will never disappear.
The Violent Rise of Capital (Part Two)
A short history of the end of history.
The Violent Rise of Capital (Part One)
A short history of how capitalists came to rule the world.
Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!
A 'reprint' of David Graeber's famous essay on anarchism.
On confronting the torrent of apathy and continuing the struggle. The ideology of resistance.
The great project of Yugoslavia has turned into a corrupt clown show fueled by hate.
Nothing is free, nothing is allowed, if someone doesn't profit. On the freedom to sleep under the stars, lead a self-determined life, and what that even means.
Why Not Get Rid of Cars Altogether?
We've made our world for cars. The automobile rules our cities, destroys our planet, poisons our air, and kills millions — every single year. Why have we built our lives around them?
Society is producing an endless variety of unnecessary and meaningless bullshit jobs. Work, consume, repeat. It might be time to end this system.
What We Call Democracy and What It Could Be: A Post-Collapse Path to Freedom
Capitalist quasi-democracy serves to maintain class dominance and pacify the masses. Let us examine one way to end the ideological monopoly and restore liberty.
The Definitive Guide to the 20 Best Communist Fiction Books
Red and revolutionary: A comprehensive list of the best communist stories and novels of all time. Society reimagined.
Capitalist Realism and the End of History
Change has become utopian and the status quo uncontested. On the philosophy of capitalist dystopia and resistance to a system that cannot be improved or changed but only dismantled.
A war justified with lies. Hundreds of thousands dead, a country in ruins. And war criminals that run free.
Do Not Fear Progress and Technology; Fear Capitalism
Technologies, much like corporations, are not inherently ‘evil.’ Rather, they are shaped by cultural and ideological circumstances.
Apathy Is Capitalism's Greatest Feature, and It’s Tearing Society Apart
On living in the status quo of dystopia, and, possibly, imagining something beyond.
A Working-Class Hero Is Something To Be?
On the fetishization of useless work and the emptiness of it all.
Cities were designed to accommodate corporations, cars, and the needs of men. It might be time to build anew.
Examining the Case for Universal Basic Income (UBI): A Solution to Capitalism’s Failures?
UBI’s potentials and limitations in a capitalist society — and beyond. Moving towards utopia.
On Raising Class Consciousness: The Status Quo of Madness
Reflections on the cost of wealth, the red pill of capitalism, and what it means to be bourgeois.
The Age of Advertising Must Come to an End
Advertisements are a scourge upon society, the environment, and ultimately ourselves. They are among the worst that capitalism has to offer. Why not get rid of them?
Solarpunk Wants To Change the World — Should We Take It Seriously?
Can an (overly) optimistic science fiction genre help inspire a new generation of Leftists?
On Apathy, Impotence, and the Realization That There Is No One to Fucking Blame
Who is responsible for the current state of affairs? For the world as it is? — A capitalist dystopia offering nothing.
A Proclamation Against Neoliberalism
'More or better capitalism' cannot save the system; more greed will not make us happier — neoliberalism has brought us to the brink of collapse.
Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC) could free us from the capitalist shackles of useless toil.
Capitalism’s Golden Cage and the Illusion of Freedom
Honest question: Do you feel free? Truly free?
Beyond Capitalism: The Rise of Solarpunk
Solarpunk provides hope in an age of darkness. It’s a bright vision of the future — an anarcho-communist vision we’ll have to fight for.
For the briefest of moments, the doors of possibility seemed open and capitalism poised to fall.
Fiction
Short stories
(Available on Substack.)
The Glacier
A melancholic work of climate fiction in three parts.
A dystopian and melancholic diary of a solitary man after the world fell apart and society collapsed in the heat-death of the earth.
An (ecotopian) short story and far-future vision of life after the climate catastrophe.
Novels and novellas
(Available to purchase.)
Cyan Waters: A Story From the Poolrooms
Vuk Petrović, a businessman and war profiteer, finds himself in a world he cannot comprehend.
Echoes of Tyranny: Freedom Lost — Part 2 of the Factory Saga
The revolution's survivors encounter a dying world.
The Factory: Revolution’s Call — Part 1 of the Factory Saga
A tale of resistance and loss in a surreal factory.
Meta
A Rising Tide of the Disillusioned
Beneath the Pavement is one year old — and just reached 2k subscribers!
The year in review.
A Thousand Minds, A Thousand Friends
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