Pathologies of Power: How Moral Panic and Collective Narcissism are Hollowed Out in the Public Square
Trapped in manufactured moral panic and collective narcissism, modern public life reduces politics to professionalised grievance, hollowing out solidarity for mutual hostility.
The New Meshchanstvo: Administrative Moralism and the Petty-Bourgeois Panic
Administrative vigilantism disguised as moral hygiene. When material critique collapses, the petty-bourgeois mind retreats into bureaucratic policing—demanding papers, harassing charities, and reducing human existence to a state-managed taxonomy. The eternal inspector at the gate.
The Principality of Piddington: Anatomy of a Manufactured Moral Panic
When an Oxfordshire village declares a breakaway "principality" to resist asylum housing, it’s pure political cosplay. Behind the human chains and populist media stunts lies a secular religion of exclusion—until the cameras leave and everyone goes back to checking the parish newsletter.
The Regressive Re-enclosure: How the Anti-Gender Movement Destroys Women’s Autonomy
Under the banner of "protection," the anti-gender movement polices women, weaponising surveillance and eroding bodily autonomy. By manufacturing public moral panics, it acts as a political diversion from domestic abuse and real systemic crises.
The Architecture of Outrage: Scapegoating, Psychological Reinforcement, and the Monetised Grievance Economy
The obsession with marginalised groups is a closed loop of displacement and moral panic, engineered to profit from manufactured misery.