The future was cancelled. We are living in the afterparty of the Industrial Age. The music has stopped, the lights are broken, and the guests are too terrified to leave.
You look at the marble facades of our institutions and the pastel vulgarity of the therapeutic state, and you feel the nausea. You see a civilisation burning all of its energy just to remain stationary.
You see the Red Queen Trap.
This is not a self-help book. I can’t help you. The therapeutic state already has a thousand pastel-coloured rooms where you can lose yourself.
This is a book of spells to break inertia.
The Red Queen Trap examines contemporary systems through the lens of complexity theory, organisational dynamics, and cultural myth. It argues that many modern institutions are trapped in self-reinforcing cycles of acceleration and collapse.
Drawing on philosophy, social theory, and historical case studies, the book offers a diagnostic framework for understanding stagnation, adaptation, and systemic failure in late modern societies.
Inside the book
The Red Queen Trap
Why we burn all our energy just to stay in place, and the brutal choice every dying system must face.
Ariadne’s Thread
How to navigate a labyrinth after you’ve been punched in the face, and why efficiency is a suicide pact with the future.
The Naked King Spell
How to make a system worship its own façade until it dismantles itself, stone by stone.
The Elephant Rope Protocol
How path dependency becomes a cage, and why “try harder” is the rope’s most elegant command.
The Art of Hiding Pebbles
How to spot the ghosts moving through the walls of empires.
The Myth of the Future
What remains when a civilisation loses the story that once pulled it forward.
The future was cancelled.
The light inside the machine has broken.
Good.
What readers are saying
“Zero copium. Maps why everything feels fake and stuck without pretending it can be fixed.”
– Anon
“Finished it and couldn’t unsee red queens everywhere. Annoying book.”
– Another anon
“Only read part 3. The chapter on the myth of the future cooks.”
– Connoisseur reader
The Red Queen Trap is available in ebook and paperback on Amazon.