📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
It Began in Our Living Rooms: The Worship of Billionaires…
Dallas did not just entertain us — it trained us. To admire the rich, excuse the damage, and confuse spectacle with legitimacy.
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Quote Without Illusions
Satire remains delightful right up to the moment it reaches our address…
People love satire — until it recognises them.
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The Illusion of Choice
Freedom did not disappear. It just learned better manners. We still choose — only the corridor has already been arranged.
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
April 1’s spaghetti tree was not just a prank. It was an early masterclass in how authority, tone, and elegant packaging can make almost anything sound true. The props changed. The mechanism did not.
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Quote Without Illusions
Money does not only buy comfort. It often rents the appearance of intelligence.
A short reflection on wealth, polish, and the expensive costume of credibility.
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While We Leave the Verdict to Posterity…
Historical responsibility sounds noble. Those living with the consequences usually prefer legal responsibility.
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
Clean Deals, Then Service Fees…
Alaska had a price. Modern empire prefers service fees. Greenland, inconveniently, is not ordering the package.
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Quote Without Illusions
Silence rarely stays neutral for long. Public decay often begins not with noise, but with elegant hesitation and the habit of looking away.
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
The Future Was Already Waiting Underground…
Farmers dug for water and hit an emperor’s “forever.” Power wants eternity; history leaves a museum.
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Quote Without Illusions
When an unproductive afternoon begins to look like wisdom…
A useless afternoon may be the last respectable form of rebellion. Not every unproductive hour is a failure…
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
Rome sold the throne openly. We just upgraded the auction into a campaign. March 28, AD 193 was vulgar enough to be honest — which is more than can be said for modern politics.
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Leisure, Already Booked in Advance…
Leisure is often just the hamster wheel in civilian clothes.
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
On March 27, 1998, the FDA approved Viagra — and a small blue pill became a global symbol of masculinity, shame, ageing, and marketing. What medicine discovered, culture monetized.
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Attention as a rare luxury…
Real listening is rare now. A 50+ man at a rainy bus stop watches a couple actually talk—just presence, no performance.
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
March 26, 1979 gave the world a peace treaty. History, as usual, kept its irony. Sometimes peace is not conscience at last, but war becoming too expensive to continue.
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In the Age of Overwritten Reality…
Satire used to hunt. Now it triages. The real problem is no longer a lack of stupidity, but an oversupply of it.
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
On this day in 1957, Europe’s common house was signed into being on paper. This piece looks back at that promise — and at the strange modern habit of mocking what has quietly made life freer.
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The Quiet Choreography of a Herded Market…
Markets no longer wait for facts — half-sentences are enough.
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llusions Not Included – Hostage of Stupidity is no longer only an eBook. The essays and satires are now also out in a physical edition — for readers who still like their questions sharp, their irony intact, and their books in hand.
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
Facts, With No Opinion Section
Facts don’t need an opinion section. Koch identified the TB bacterium in 1882—today a pathogen must survive politics, PR, and comment wars first. T
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When the scenery changes, but the appetite does not…
Machiavelli still stings because the packaging changes faster than human nature.
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
March 23: Wernher von Braun’s birthday — and another reminder that civilisation loves the future most when it can quietly reclassify the past.
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Quote Without Illusions
When virtue survives only as campaign vocabulary…
Virtue is still quoted in politics. It is simply no longer expected to interfere with ambition.
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What if Lolita were no longer a scandal, but a format?
Lolita 2.0 looks at a world where realism masks calculation, intimacy becomes negotiation, and the public no longer judges — it scrolls.
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
The Moving Image That Never Learned to Stop…
March 22, 1895. The Lumière brothers set images in motion. A century later, we turned cinema into “content,” and attention into rubble.
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Wasted Time May Be the Most Intelligent Investment…
Doing nothing is sometimes the most civilised form of resistance.
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
Order, Freshly Pressed…
March 21, 1804: the Code civil is proclaimed. First the code, then the crown — a sequence power has always found irresistible.
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Seriousness as an Overpriced Life Strategy…
Seriousness is often just panic in formalwear.
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When a Moment Still Wanted to Become a Memory…
A new Illusions Not Included Podcast episode on photography, memory, and the age of performance. Also on Spotify and via RSS.
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📜 On This Day — Without Illusions
Happiness, Scheduled for a Fixed Time…
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