This domain collects notes about the intersection of political power, ideology, and human experience — how states shape minds, how loneliness breeds tyranny, and how the structures people build to feel safe end up controlling them.
Start here:
- Totalitarianism and Loneliness
- Strong Gods
- The Cathedral
- Orthodoxy as Virtue
- Eating People
- Lions and Foxes
- Bin Laden’s True Plans
- Fascism
- China’s Economy
- Patent Thief
- Chinese Opinion on Their Government
- Everything Is Worse in China
- Zheng Wenlu
- The Kid
- Worst of Both Worlds
- How Xi Consolidated Power
- China as Solaris
- War as Production Problem
- China’s Financial Mechanics
- China Twitter Follows
- Spice
- The Spiritual Wumao
- The Babel Limit
- Pseudo-Diversity