Archive - The Murphy Memos

The Bullshit Economy

Why 33 Million Americans Are Paid to Pretend They’re Working

Jun 9 •

May 2025

Modern Culture is a Boiling Frog Inside an AI Dumpster Fire

Is AI Really the Problem?

May 27 •

Evil Unto Another

Never Stays Isolated

May 21 •

Capitalism and the Invisible Fist Punching You, Yes You, In the Face Forever

You Are Being Punched in the Face by Capitalism. It Will Not Stop.

May 15 •

There Is No Alternative: The Death of Imagination

Listen now | This episode explores Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher.

May 13 •

1:53:52

April 2025

Surveillance Fascism: How Your Data Became a Weapon (And How to Fight Back)

Listen now | We're living in a techno-dystopia

Apr 29 •

1:00:47

Rethinking Narcissism by Craig Malkin

My illustrated book notes!

Apr 24 •

The Revolution Will Be Substacked

Rebuilding Mythology In The Age of Estrangement

Apr 15 •

walking, the real thing, midsommar

3 Things Thursday!

Apr 3 •

March 2025

they shattered like a mirror

Mar 25 •

life is suffering

but life is continuous

Mar 18 •

David Graeber's 3 Forms of Economic Relations

Baseline communism, market exchange, and hierarchy

Mar 11 •

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