free market
bound bodies
enslaved nation
The promise of choice conceals its chains. Companies and markets claim liberation while rigging the bargain: bodies become trade goods, time transforms into currency. Beneath hyper-capitalism's polished veneer, the citizen becomes commodity.
- Whose labor sustains the illusion of freedom?
- How do we measure a life spent earning permission to exist?
- What if liberty is just capitalism's longest con?
Like a palimpsest, liberty's language overwrites old bondage—yet slavery's faint script still bleeds through the parchment.
The market enslaves all it promises to free.
— Dean Bowman
Passages - Silence & Substance
The Inner Passages blog series features small observations and insights from The In-between.
Dean Bowman