Mental Health
The Alienated Self: A Crisis of Modernity
Rising rates of mental illness are not mere chemical imbalances, but a rational response to the alienation inherent in the modern condition.
Editorial · August 22, 2026 · 15 min read
Consumerism
How consumption shapes desire, identity, and meaning. Essays on commodification and the felt experience of consumer society.
8 essays
Mental Health
The Modern Condition and the Antinatalist Diagnosis
Rising rates of mental illness and alienation in late modernity are not merely social or political problems; they are existential symptoms of a condition that antinatalist philosophers argue is inherent to conscious existence itself.
Editorial · August 4, 2026 · 15 min read
Mental Health
The Alienated Mind: Despair and the Modern Condition
Rising rates of mental illness are not mere individual pathologies but symptoms of a deepening alienation endemic to modern life—a diagnosis that gives weight to the antinatalist critique of existence.
Editorial · July 5, 2026 · 14 min read
Mental Health
The Alienated Mind: Despair and the Modern Condition
Rising rates of mental illness and alienation in late modernity lend credence to the antinatalist assessment of existence.
Editorial · June 24, 2026 · 15 min read
Mental Health
The Despair of the Always-On: Alienation and the Modern Condition
In an age of unprecedented connectivity and material wealth, why are we lonelier and more desperate than ever? This essay explores the crisis of late modernity through the lens of philosophical pessimism and the antinatalist diagnosis.
Editorial · June 15, 2026 · 15 min read
Mental Health
The Alienated Mind: Modernity and the Antinatalist Diagnosis
Rising rates of mental illness and social alienation are not isolated crises but symptoms of a deeper existential predicament, lending weight to the antinatalist critique of procreation.
Editorial · June 6, 2026 · 14 min read
Society
The Gospel of Enough
Consumerism is not a personal failing. It is a system designed to manufacture dissatisfaction. Understanding how it works is the first step toward freedom.
Editorial · May 31, 2026 · 9 min read
Society
Alone Together
Modern alienation is not about loneliness. It is about the way connection has been reorganized by technology, markets, and the erosion of shared space.
Editorial · May 31, 2026 · 10 min read