The Degeneracy of The Modern West

The West has never been more prosperous, yet its most powerful systems (the attention economy, frictionless credit, on-demand everything, institutions that reward spectacle) now profit from our worst impulses: distraction over focus, comfort over self-control, image over substance.

Written from inside the attention machine, this is a provocative diagnosis of systems and incentives, not people. It steelmans its critics, then ends with a blueprint for raising standards in health, work, family, craft and public life.