How to Find Water in the Desert: A Field Guide for the Future Lost Soul
How to survive the desert of the internet (and real deserts).
Michael Vera
Anti-Denialist, Systems Theoretician, Theoretical Metaphysician
Michael Vera
Anti-Denialist, Systems Theoretician, Theoretical Metaphysician
Category Economics
Applying “A Generalized Triadic Framework for Systemic Power Analysis” to US-Israeli Excessive Entanglement
It may be the fallacy of conflation that sustains the peculiar relationship between the United States and UN Member State Israel. Whenever a single element of the entanglement is analyzed, it is quietly conflated with two others as misdirection. So…
The $200 Million Broom Closet: What “Project Hail Mary” Really Costs
Studio-reported budgets are narrative instruments. We should stop quoting them as if they're facts.
The Cenotaph Protocol
On the Self-Archivization of the World Wide Web and the Collapse of the Live Medium, 2026.
Sewage as a Service: Premium Contamination on X.com
The social media "Platform Economy" is not a town square, but a poorly managed septic system.
The Elaboratory: Federal Panopticonism
Participants are told they are free to grow, innovate, and compete, while the essential conditions for independent growth are systematically withheld.
Outrage Casino: How Twitter/X Gambled Away Human Conversation and Won the Jackpot of Slop
"X killed real conversation; it's bots talking to rage farms now."
The Nitrodollar
The Nitro-Dollar system commodifies living ecosystems into numerical growth, powered by nitrates and fossil fuels, with biospheric destabilization as its ignored byproduct.
Explosionomics: The Bomb-Based Economy Fueling American Prosperity
Explosionomics renders war not as a geopolitical failure but as an economic necessity, since nitrates only generate profit upon use.
Terminal Imperial Entropy: The U.S. as a War-Based Economy in Decay
A machine that only knows how to grind, but not build, will eventually run out of things to grind.