Charles Hugh Smith

I wrote Ultra-Processed Life to describe a peculiarly perverse structure of control that now dominates our entire culture and way of life: what’s presented…

As our mental and physical health spirals into a black hole of addiction, dependencies, anxiety and distraction, we’re powerless to discern the spiral because…

On my map of how the world works, we start with structures of control that distribute the good stuff–resources, assets, income and power–and the…

I narrate key points in my post “Offload Risks onto the Bottom 90% and Immiseration Follows” The underlying story of the past 50 years…

I narrate key points in my post “How Do We Fix What’s Broken?” It is an irony of power that codes and technocratic regulations…

This is essay #4 in the series the Revolution No One Sees Coming. To fix what’s broken we first have to 1) identify what’s…

What’s already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable…

I narrate key points in my post “Without Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable” It turns out that experienced human workers doing the work right in…

Small business owner and San Francisco correspondent ‘Sparx Eightthreetwo’ (found on facebook under the same name) has a metaphor of the sea and boats…

I narrate key points in my post “A Revolutionary July 4th: Retribution Is Irrationally Rewarding” Longtime readers know the larger context of all my…