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Gender Wars in a Broken System
The magnificent delusion
Last Tuesday, I watched my childhood friend dissolve into tears at my kitchen table. His wife had threatened to label him an abuser if he contested their divorce settlement. “Nobody will believe you,” she’d told him. “You’re just another man.” The hollow terror in his eyes reflected something beyond personal tragedy — a glimpse into our collective madness.
He is not alone. Across different battles, people find themselves crushed not just by individual betrayals but by a system that thrives on them. A machine that does not seek justice, only efficiency. That does not weigh truth, only optics. That does not mend, only discards.
Two souls caught in the gears of a system that was broken long before either battle began.
The theater of perpetual distraction
While we wage holy war over gender justice, something more insidious unfolds about us.
We’ve constructed an economic labyrinth where most people spend their lives performing tasks that contribute nothing of real value to humanity.
- The marketing executive crafting campaigns to sell sugar water to children
- The financial analyst inventing complex derivatives that extract wealth without creating it
