Risk-maxxing and the Death of the Middle Path
For older generations, risk is a choice. For Gen Z, it's a trap.
Anticipating the Aftermath.
Independent writing from Scott Smith about culture, technology, politics & the future.
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Dec 27
Risk-maxxing and the Death of the Middle Path
For older generations, risk is a choice. For Gen Z, it's a trap.
10 min read
Dec 14
Living in Someone Else's Bet
A look at risk-maxxing from an NPC's point of view.
4 min read
Aug 13
Bunker Mentality
Sven Holm's spare vision of privilege at the end times.
3 min read
Jul 04
The Era of Risk-Maxxing
Power chooses chaos over caution in unstable times
8 min read
Jun 22
Doing Nothing Isn't a Strategy
Strategic thinking shrinks as the future accelerates
4 min read
Apr 19
Frozen Light
What The Golden Hour reveals about nostalgia and time
3 min read
Mar 31
Slash and Burn
Victorian Psycho and the aesthetics of controlled madness
3 min read
Dec 24
Nature Finds a Way
Olga Tokarczuk's slow-burn sanatorium horror and the return of the repressed feminine
3 min read
Oct 06
Always Fighting the Last Insurrection
Why America keeps rehearsing its own collapse
4 min read
Apr 26
Apes on a Treadmill
Nuclear War scenarios and the automation of destruction
4 min read
Apr 15
Temple of Shroom
Empire dreams and psychedelic reality in Álvaro Enrigue's new book
4 min read
Apr 14
Coming Attractions
What Civil War gets right about American fracture
4 min read