Letters from the present.

One argument, examined from different angles: how dependence becomes income, how income becomes power, and how that power is made to seem normal.

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1. The Leech

   How culture, institutions, and public narratives can teach people to accept the terms imposed on them.

2. The Leech’s Anatomy

   Follow rent, debt, platform fees, and public contracts into the institutions that collect them.

3. The Host and the Infection

   Who belongs to the Host, who controls its terms, and how the Leech’s logic enters judgment and character.

AI-generated illustration, directed by the author. A visual metaphor.

Alongside the manifesto

Letters

Shorter pieces that apply the manifesto’s terms to a current question. Each one can be read on its own.

1. AI will not kill you. The one saying that it will, will 2026-09-20

   AI, ownership, and the people deciding who gains from the tools that others come to depend on.

2. A Letter to an American Adult: White Pillage 2026-09-15

   A letter connecting the West’s history of domination to the ownership, dependency, and private power of the present.

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