Foma Files

I’ve been struck recently by something that doesn’t quite add up. In 2026, some things are endlessly questioned, relativised, picked apart. Others are treated as so obvious they barely need saying. This isn’t about evidence — we have more of that than ever. It’s about something else. Something to do with who carries a thing, and who doesn’t. Once you notice it, the pattern stops being subtle. Two histories, two very different fates Take two catastrophes. ...

Classification: Structural Foma Camouflage: “Personal Responsibility” Primary Function: Compliance Student loans are not debated because they are no longer perceived as policy. They are treated as a fact of nature. In countries where they exist, student debt is framed as inevitable - like gravity applied to young adults. The question is never why this system exists, only how to endure it responsibly. This is how foma stabilizes: alternatives vanish first, critique follows later. ...

The guardians of reason stare into the mirror of AI and see, for the first time, their own borrowed plumage.

Canada is unraveling, but not in the noisy pantomime style of Britain. Its fragility is quieter, bureaucratic, and brittle. For decades, the country held together by scaffolding rather than stone — institutions, slogans, and borrowed myths that looked solid but were never deeply believed. The Rise and Fall of the Canadian Foma 1. The Birth of the Story (1867–1945) Confederation stitched together east and west under Britain’s umbrella. The founding foma was simple: Canada is a nation, bilingual, polite, and different from America. The glue was empire, church, and the frontier myth. ...

“One scarcely knows where to begin.” Introduction Once upon a time, Britain ruled the seas. Today it rules the headlines with AI Prosperity Deals, collapsing infrastructure rebranded as renewal, and “investment pledges” that turn out to be little more than press releases. The pantomime continues, and the Daily Mail writes the reviews. The United Kingdom has become a theatre where empire’s afterglow is staged as farce. The actors change - Thatcher, Blair, Johnson, Starmer - but the script is the same: Britain must always be more important than it is. ...

Britain, A Nation in Decline but Always Entertained The United Kingdom today feels less like a ship of state and more like the Titanic after the iceberg: still afloat, still glamorous, but slowly tilting. And what is the Daily Mail if not the house band, playing loud and lively so that no one has to notice the icy water creeping in? Each headline is another tune to keep the passengers occupied: ...

Phase 1: Paul the Founder — From Tents to Theology Paul was a hustler. He took a small, regional movement centered on a Jewish teacher and rebranded it for the Mediterranean world. He stripped complexity down to a few core claims, created scalable rituals (baptism, breaking bread), and built out a network of franchisees (church planters) who could replicate the model in city after city. It was a classic startup move: simplify, package, and spread fast. The absurdity? A movement founded on love and equality instantly began stratifying who could lead. Women who played central roles in the early gatherings were sidelined, and Paul’s letters laid down restrictions that would echo for centuries. A startup that promised universal love ends up enforcing a hierarchy of celibate men guarding access to the divine. ...