We mourn not what is lost, but what once felt stable. The world we knew - flawed, familiar, navigable - now collapses under a thousand clever lies. This elegy is not for the dead, but for the dependable. For shared meaning. For truth with a pulse. The known is vanishing - and with it, the illusion that we ever understood it.
In an age of noise, subtraction is salvation. The Gospel of Less isn’t about austerity - it’s about clarity. What you strip away, you gain in focus. Fewer things, fewer lies, fewer dependencies. It’s not minimalism - it’s rebellion. A manifesto for those who choose signal over static, and silence over the sermons of a bloated world.
When the world burns, we’re told to rebuild. But sometimes, the ashes are the lesson. There’s a strange beauty in collapse - in the clarity that ruin brings. What falls away reveals what matters. This isn’t despair - it’s revelation. In the embers of failure, something truer flickers. Not hope. Not healing. Just the unvarnished shape of reality.
Florence lingers like a half-remembered dream - stone and shadow, beauty and burden. It’s not the city that changed, but the eyes that see it. Memory edits, distills, betrays. What was once sacred becomes spectral. In tracing old steps, we find not the past, but the echo of who we were when we first arrived.
Democratic collapse doesn’t take dramatic collapse—it dies in the margins. Parties pretend to represent us, while voters shrug through apathy. Activists pound keyboards. Pollsters pad turnout. But in reality, entire demographics have slipped into statistical oblivion. No protests. No headlines. The real crisis isn’t public collapse—it’s silent erasure.
Capitalism no longer builds—it bureaucratizes. The global corporation is a Gothic cathedral of forms, run by PowerPoint sorcerers and KPI necromancers. Innovative entrepreneurs have been replaced by checkbox bureaucrats who conjure compliance, not creation. Real building is a relic. Today’s performance art keeps the system alive while erasing true makers’ agency.