Formatting the Abyss: A Requiem for Medium
An autopsy of Medium’s clap economy, showing how visibility metrics push writers toward safe formats, self-censorship and obedience while ambiguity, risk and real thinking quietly disappear.
Evil, Ph.D.
Bullshitologist Emeritus · Couch Philosopher · Witness of Systems Collapse
I document how illusions fail after the optimism wears off. I don’t coach. I don’t console. I leave what remains where it can be examined.
Long-form essays on culture, systems and the mechanics that shape daily life. Each hub is a focused dossier with essays gathered as evidence.
Featured Essays
Current field notes from the archive.
The Illusion of Control
Wealth, health, fame and planning sit inside a control myth that collapses under chance and mortality.
Threadbare Prophets: X.com and the Gospel of Grind
X.com thread culture uses viral templates, impression metrics and course funnels to turn hustle ideology into monetized performance and recycled promises.
Outsourcing the Struggle
AI-driven automation promises effortless living while eroding effort, virtue and the sense of purpose that comes from struggle.
The Algorithm Ate My Goldmine
AI-driven YouTube automation schemes and the modern content hustle rely on algorithmic incentives, saturation and passive-income promises that trap creators in unpaid labor, burnout and illusionary success cycles.
Hubs
Organized investigations, not categories.
Platform Decay & Metric Worship
Autopsies of platforms that replaced judgment with metrics, discovery with distribution and culture with optimization loops.
Hustle Culture & Grind Myths
Case files on hustle ideology, grind myths and productivity systems that moralize exhaustion while promising freedom.
Attention Economy, Doomscrolling & Brain Rot
Evidence logs on saturation, compulsive consumption and the neurological cost of infinite feeds.
AI, Authenticity & Synthetic Culture
Reports on AI-generated culture, authenticity collapse and the human anxiety triggered by synthetic signal.
Body as Market & Optimization Anxiety
Clinical notes on bodies processed as marketplaces, optimized under fear and sold back as virtue.
Control, Meaning & the Modern Void
Findings on control, optimization superstition and the meaning deficit produced by systems that function too well.