Treachery Of The Common

Treachery Of The Common

n.
the fear that everyone around the world is pretty much the same—that despite our local quirks, we were all mass-produced in the same factory, built outward from the same generic homunculus, preinstalled with the same tribal compulsions and character defects—which would leave you out of options if you ever want to reinvent yourself, or seek out a better society on the other side of the globe.

A riff on the tragedy of the commons, which is a situation where individual users acting in their own self-interest end up harming the common good, usually by depletion or pollution of resources.

Idlewild

Mahpiohanzia

Elsewise

Volander

Foreclearing

Exulansis

Zielschmerz

Jouska

Gobo

Harmonoia

Merrenness

Trumspringa

The Til

Scabulous

Slipfast

Plata Rasa

Ghough

The Kick Drop

Nementia

On Tenderhooks

Emorries

a magnifying glass over photos and books

Ghough

Fygophobia

Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Amuse-Douche

Wellium