An Economy That Runs on Attention
Why performance replaced production — and what it’s doing to us
Jake Mura
Writer and editor of Irrelevant Matters, writing essays on ideas, spirituality, philosophy, culture and society.
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On the Problem of Being a “Citizen of the World”
Mobility, autonomy, and the asymmetry of belonging
The Ethics of Illusion
Why truth without readiness can become a form of violence
The Ceremony That Never Ends
On symbols, delayed reality, and the quiet theft of agency.
The Philosophers We Imagine vs. The Humans They Actually Were
Socrates wouldn’t be offline — he’d be in the comments.
The Strange Case of the Em Dash in the Age of AI Anxiety
When writers start policing punctuation to prove they’re human, you know the machines have already won.