The Noticing Project · 24 essays
Once you start noticing, you can’t stop.
Over 20 years in property. 20 years as an MS patient. I walked away when I saw the pattern. Now I notice it everywhere: dependency, extraction, control.
Not politics. Not conspiracy. Just pattern recognition.
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The pattern, in three lines
- Create dependency.
- Extract value.
- Prevent escape.
The same playbook keeps turning up in money, property, health, education and government. Each essay follows it somewhere new: what we’re told, what doesn’t quite fit, and who benefits. Make of it what you will.
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Living in the Matrix

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Money Series

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Every essay sits under the system it looks at. Start with the one you know best.
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