Just when you thought you didn’t belong in this world...

 What if the sadness, anxiety, or burnout you feel isn’t a sign that something is wrong with you—but that something is deeply wrong with the world you’ve been asked to survive in?

Since the Industrial Revolution, Western society has slowly dismantled the natural ecosystems of support that humans once depended on—village life, community care, and shared responsibility. We’ve traded tribal belonging and meaningful interdependence for individualism, productivity, and profit. In many Indigenous and developing cultures, community remains the medicine. But in the modern West, we've been sold a myth of freedom that isolates and empties us.

We left behind European social hierarchies only to enter into a new rat race—one defined by capitalism, industrial wealth, and endless consumption. From the gold rush to the rise of titans like Carnegie, Ford, and JP Morgan… to the mass food machines of Hershey’s, Kellogg’s, and McDonald’s, our world has been shaped by profit-driven systems that care little for human thriving.

Now, we're stuck inside a bureaucratic machine that is literally making us sick.

Our food harms us.

Our healthcare profits from the harm.

Our mental health industry often offers pills and protocols before genuine connection.

And when we feel the weight of it all—when we struggle to breathe under the pressure—we’re told the problem is us. That we’re mentally unwell. That we need to be fixed. That we should talk to a chatbot or download another self-help app. Spiritual ideologies sometimes even gaslight us into believing that our pain is karma, or that we somehow "attracted" our suffering.

But the truth is this:

You are not lost, on the wrong track or different.
You are responding normally to a deeply dysfunctional system.

The anxiety, sadness, rage, or emptiness you feel are signs that your soul still works.
You were never meant to thrive in a world that treats humans like cogs.

This space is for you—to unlearn the lie that you are the problem and to start seeing the system for what it really is. Through these weekly articles, I’ll be breaking down the roots of this dysfunction, helping you see more clearly where your pain comes from, and why it makes complete sense.

You are not failing.
You are waking up.