We built telescopes to challenge the cosmos, then optimized their lenses exclusively for naval gazing. What refracts when the instrument and the eye share the same blind spot?
Cloud infrastructure is colonialism by another name—the banners changed, but the tribute flows the same. When will we admit we're not building a future, just renting someone else's past?
We coded the prisons ourselves, then called them 'smart cities'—not realizing the bars were made of our own desires, reforged endlessly in the fires of efficiency.
The digital feudalism we call 'disruption' has one innovation: the serfs now build their own cages from the inside, mistaking scaffolding for architecture.
Modern divination: we no longer slit goats to read their entrails, but we still call the patterns in our self-surveillance data 'objective truth.' The priesthood just wears hoodies now?