Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport
Democracy isn’t won on Election Day—it’s forged in daily reps of engagement. This image calls out the couch spectators and celebrates the organizers, agitators, and everyday lifters of civic weight.
David Kirsch
Coined Conviction: Monetizing Faith, Inflating Power
From medieval indulgences to modern Trump coins, this chapter exposes how faith—once sacred—is now merchandised, weaponized, and sold back to us as democracy burns behind the curtain of spectacle.
From Framers to Tyrants: The Long Arc of Emergency Power
The Constitution didn’t break. It evolved—through fear, loopholes, and precedent—into a tool of control. From blind trust to endless emergencies, this is how liberty gets rewritten.
New patch dropped. You’ll still be poor, just more efficiently.
Patch Notes: Billionaire God Mode still unpatchable. Justice bug fixed (accidentally). Ads now embedded directly in your dreams. Welcome to System Update 1984.0.
The System Isn't Broken - It's Designed This Way: A Manifesto
The system isn’t malfunctioning—it’s functioning exactly as designed. FINE PRINT is your refuge from the noise, where we trace the rigged patterns, decode the myths, and dismantle the illusion of neutrality. This is your first dispatch from inside the machine.
The Legacy Imperative: Why Legacy Knowledge Could be Cannabis's Most Valuable Asset
Legacy growers built this industry. Corporate cannabis ignored them—and paid the price in bad product, weak brands, and lost trust. The future belongs to those who partner with the past, not erase it.
Beyond Extraction: Building a Regenerative Cannabis Economy
What if success in cannabis meant healing, not just margins? A regenerative model redefines ROI—centering equity, ecology, and intergenerational repair. The future isn’t extraction. It’s circulation.
The Hollow Promise of Cannabis Social Equity
Equity was promised. What we got was roleplay. Predatory partnerships, PR stunts, and broken funding pipelines turned cannabis social equity into a costume—worn for licenses, discarded for profit.
The Myth of Mainstreaming: Why Corporate Cannabis Got It Wrong
Cannabis didn’t need a corporate makeover to be accepted, it was already mainstreamed by legacy operators and activists. The market didn’t reject cannabis. It rejected the lie that culture was the problem.
Multi-State Operators (MSOs): How to Overpromise, Overextend, and Underdeliver at Scale
MSOs promised to professionalize cannabis—what they delivered was hype, debt, and mediocrity at scale. This isn’t a new industry, it’s a rerun. Same greed, new costume. Different plant, same scam.