borkedsys

1/ 🌍 Systemic issues are often invisible to many because they’re deeply embedded in the systems that govern our lives. From economic inequality to environmental destruction, these problems aren’t isolated, they’re all interconnected. Let’s break it down.

Our inability to forgive keeps us trapped.

To reclaim the self is to see how deeply it’s been outsourced. To deprogram the need to be seen through what we buy. Until we dislodge the market from culture, we will keep mistaking branded selves for human ones.

They didn’t just sell to you. They sold you back to yourself. Fragmented. Packaged. Upgraded. And now you must consume just to feel whole again.

Corporate power doesn’t require brute force. It uses design. It programs the visible world until even resistance is aestheticized. This is market totalitarianism, made beautiful.

When identity becomes a commercial function, the self fragments. We stop asking who we are and start managing how we’re perceived. The result isn’t authenticity, it’s selfhood as optics. Selfhood as strategy.

You’re told to “be yourself.” But your options are all catalogued. Uniqueness is permitted, so long as it’s profitable. If it can’t be marketed, it’s made invisible. That’s not freedom. That’s filtered autonomy.

Where symbols once helped us make sense of being human, they now make sense of market potential. Every sacred gesture converted to a branding opportunity. The psyche is no longer private. It’s real estate.

Culture once emerged from below, woven through time, struggle, and shared myth. Now it’s seeded by design. What you wear, say, love, or aspire to has been preloaded. This isn’t culture. It’s behaviorally-engineered compliance.

Corporate logic colonized the symbolic layer of life. It took story, belonging, and pride, and rewired them for profit. Your rituals are ads. Your personality is product metadata. The self is now a monetized interface.

The market doesn’t just sell products, it sells meaning. It sculpts desire, curates identity, and manufactures aesthetics optimized for consumption. You don’t live in a culture. You live in a branded simulation of one.

The system survives because people feel ashamed of their clarity. They see the contradictions. They feel the injustice. But “common sense” tells them to sit down, blend in, be realistic. So they do. Until something inside breaks.

You’re not irrational for feeling the system is wrong. You’re gaslit by a culture that profits off your confusion. This is why cognitive dissonance hurts. Because your soul knows what your mind has been trained to doubt.

Breaking free isn’t about knowing everything. It’s about unlearning the logic that defends your own exploitation. That’s where liberation begins... Not in a new belief, but in the willingness to question the beliefs you were told not to touch.

The first defense of a harmful system is to normalize its logic. The second is to make questioning that logic feel insane. And the third is to make the people who challenge it sound dangerous. This is how “common sense” becomes a weapon.

We’re not “free thinkers” by default. We’re the result of ideological conditioning, from schools, from media, from language itself. Even your definition of freedom was likely shaped to serve power.

Cognitive dissonance is the firewall of the status quo. When someone shows you the system is broken. You don’t just hear critique. You feel danger. Your whole worldview might crash, so the firewall kicks in. Deny. Ridicule. Retreat.

The system doesn’t need you to agree with it. It only needs you to fear leaving it. This is where “common sense” becomes a tool of control. It shrinks the possible, buries the imagination, and makes the most violent ideas sound responsible.

When your life depends on a system, your brain will do everything it can to justify that system. This is cognitive dissonance. When your values say "this feels wrong" But your survival says "keep going." So your mind finds a way to make both feel true at the cost of your clarity.

“Of course you have to work to survive.” “Of course some people will always be poor.” “Of course we can’t just give things away.” These aren’t facts. They’re programmed defaults, engineered to make unnatural systems feel inevitable.