We once politicized culture to drive ideological struggle.
Today, the inverse is true: politics has become culture. No longer an instrument for realpolitik, it serves as a mere broadcast of affiliation—a performance of identity rather than a pursuit of progress.
This shift creates a sterile contradiction: alienation increases amid strict conformity, while active responsibility is replaced by a perpetual cycle of blame, and our hard-won liberations have enslaved us to more work, taxes, and precarity.