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American Culture is Stored in the Tax Code
Ask someone outside the US to describe American life, and they might mention sprawling homes, last-minute December donations, business trips that double…
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Kanav Jain
The American Ergonomic Ideal
American power has long been driven by what I call an “ergonomic ideal”: squeezing every bit of extraction out of a system while disguising or…
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Kanav Jain
Who Gets to Tell the Story?
Why Denial Is the Core of Structural Power
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Kanav Jain
[Accept All] / [Reject All]
You were trained to read like a browser tab—fast, extractive, always behind. This micro-guide shows you how to pause: roll a shoulder, unclench your…
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Kanav Jain
It Really Does Take Two
Power’s greatest conquest isn’t crushing lone rebels or dispersing crowds—it’s sneaking into the everyday interpersonal bonds we rely on.
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Kanav Jain
Perverse Stability vs. Authentic Peace
We’ve grown so accustomed to equating silence with peace that we overlook the heavy toll it exacts.
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Kanav Jain
Say It Again Anyway
I nearly scrapped this draft because I’d already unpacked institutional forgetting in The Amnesia Engine. My inner editor—raised on Omit needless words…
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Kanav Jain
Edge-Case Medicine: How Profit Logic Treats Life as Waste
Capitalism doesn’t just cut corners—it cuts people out.
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Kanav Jain
Heartbroken and Devastated™
What happens when grief is routinized? When mourning scripts follow mass shootings, airstrikes, or police violence—but policy doesn’t move?
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Kanav Jain
Honest Communication Kills Weaponized Incompetence
It’s only human to need help — but we have to be able to admit it.
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What I Hope Happens to You
I don’t want you to just avoid burnout, I want you to see labor as a site of struggle, defaults as political choices, and for us to reforge our systemic…
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Kanav Jain

April 2025

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