The Hollow Foundation of the Modern World

We live in an age of miracles: artificial intelligence drafts our emails, drones deliver our food, and billionaires launch themselves into orbit while entire nations digitize their economies. By every metric, we are more advanced than ever. Yet beneath the shimmering surface of progress lies something far less stable—a hollow foundation, quietly widening with each passing year.

Not hollow because nothing is there. Hollow because what’s there doesn’t hold.