“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members”

How sovereign, self-directed, fully alive individuals outgrew the modern world—and what must come next. The System Was Never Built to Hold Us Every civilization builds its containers. The industrial age built cities: vast machines of labor, scale, capital, and control. We built them to organize production, house institutions, and concentrate power. Their grid was functional.…

A woman sobs in the back of a rideshare. She messages her therapist – an app she’s used for the past six months. It mirrors her language, recalls the last time she felt like this, and suggests a breathing rhythm based on her biometric data. She exhales, calms, and tells herself she’s lucky to have…