When Economy Forgot It Was Ecology
Modernity—particularly in its economic imagination—has rendered nearly everything into a commodity. In doing so, it has become aestheticly ugly, ecologically destructive, and psychologically separative.
What cannot be priced is ignored; what is priced is exhausted. Conflict is not an accident of this system—it is its by-product.
Persisting in this worldview today feels like insisting on using WordStar for word processing: once revolutionary, now obsolete. Its continued use is not nostalgic—it is deafeningly irrelevant.
Nature does not move in straight lines; it moves in cycles. What once served coherence in a particular era may become friction in another. Relevance is temporal. Clinging to past frameworks beyond their season is not continuity—it is stagnation.
The tragedy of modernity is not that it existed, but that it refuses to recognize when its time has passed.
