Reviving what’s human through satire, story and reflection.

The pace of change has outrun our ability to make sense of it. Complexity has exceeded the structures we built to hold it. The information flooding our lives has outpaced our capacity to filter, interpret, or trust it. And somewhere in that gap between how fast the world is moving and how much we can actually absorb, absurdity moved in.

We feel it everywhere. In organizations that say one thing and do another. In institutions that have stopped making coherent sense. In conversations that go in circles. In decisions that solve nothing. In the quiet, creeping feeling that something is fundamentally off but nobody can quite name it.

This isn’t confusion. It’s a condition. And it has a name.

Age of Absurdity is a cultural diagnosis of this moment and why absurdity is rising, what it’s doing to us, and what it means for how we live, work, and find our way forward. Drawing on complexity thinking, systems research, and the long tradition of satire as a truth-telling lens, it argues that the disorientation most of us feel isn’t a personal failing. It’s a rational response to systems that have become genuinely incoherent.

The cost is real. We are losing our bearings, our sense of agency, our capacity for discernment, our ability to make meaning, our connection to each other and to hope. When orientation breaks down at scale, people don’t just feel confused. They disengage. They stop trusting. They stop acting.

But absurdity has always carried a signal. And noticing it — really noticing it, with clear eyes and a willingness to name what we see — is the first act of reclaiming what’s been lost.

Age of Absurdity is for anyone who has sensed that something is wrong but struggled to name it. For anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping their experience — and find their way back to agency, clarity, and the possibility of change.