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On The Great Chain of Taste
Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow, and the Philistine (Class Series, Essay 3)
4 hrs ago • 
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On The Ten Ways Men Waste Their Lives
Why Most Men Squander Their Lives and How Great Men Endure Across Ages
Sep 6 • 
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On Psychology Without Freud
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche Against Consolation
Sep 3 • 
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On The Hollowing Middle
The Vanishing Common Life (Class Series, Essay 2)
Sep 1 • 
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August 2025

The Class Series: Mapping the Hidden Architecture of Order
An inquiry into hierarchy, culture, and the fate of civilization.
Aug 30 • 
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On The Digital One-Dimensional Man
Marcuse, Bernays, and the Machinery of Manufactured Desire
Aug 24 • 
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On The Moral Economy of Attention
Affordances, Virtue, and the World We See
Aug 23 • 
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On When $100,000 Was Enough
A before/after exploration of lifestyle, class identity, and the new meaning of affluence
Aug 21 • 
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On The Rise of the Blockchain Sovereign
From Organization Man to Snow Crash to the Sovereign Individual
Aug 17 • 
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On The AI Plateau
In Historical Perspective
Aug 11 • 
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On The Steward Class
Volume II in the Heartland Restoration Series
Aug 2 • 
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July 2025

On Princes to Programmers
How Japan’s Monetary Past Foreshadows America’s CBDC Future
Jul 30 • 
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