The Murphy Memos

Adam Smith’s Biggest Lie: The Barter Economy

Debunking The Myth of the Barter Economy

Aug 4 • Max Murphy

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July 2026

I Lived The Truman Show

How a powerful CEO turned me into a mirror of the one

Jul 23 • Max Murphy

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June 2026

The Future of America is a Dead Data Center

America is celebrating its 250th birthday by building future ruins

Jun 30 • Max Murphy

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May 2026

How Sexual Repression Turns Men Into Evil, Horny Monsters

The two heads of man and the iron cock cage of rationality

May 5 • Max Murphy

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April 2026

Why Dictators Have Secret Sexual Perversions

Dictator Sexuality: How Tom Buchanan Took Over The World

Apr 27 • Max Murphy

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How I Flushed My MAGA Mom Down The Toilet

The revolutionary dialectics of flushing a clogged toilet

Apr 20 • Max Murphy

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March 2026

AI is Eerie because it Lacks Eros

Art, the window through which a new world is found

Mar 31 • Max Murphy

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February 2026

Surveillance Fascism and the Death of Interiority

On Wendell Berry’s Choice: Will We Live as Creatures or as Machines?

Feb 17 • Max Murphy

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On the Femininomenon of Bullshit Jobs

How Girlboss feminism betrayed women and trapped them in humiliating, pointless office jobs

Feb 3 • Max Murphy

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December 2025

My Digital Tony: How I Survived a Traumatic Childhood with an Internet Persona

The Dissociative Tool That Saved and Then Rebuilt My Life

Dec 5, 2025 • Max Murphy

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Santa is Everything Wrong with Christmas

The super ego with a sleigh who shimmies down your chimney for the annual behavioral audit

Dec 3, 2025 • Max Murphy

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What Ghost Writing for Tech Executives Taught Me About the Small Peepee Paradox

And how it explains almost everything

Dec 2, 2025 • Max Murphy

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