Turning Existential Heat into Sustainable Growth Life includes heat. Conflict, pressure, failure, tension and uncertainty are not design flaws. They are structural features of growth. Yet modern culture often encourages the avoidance of discomfort, mistaking calm for maturity and peace for progress. This article challenges that fantasy through a sharp metaphor. If life will inevitably take you through hell, the question is not how to escape it but how to cook with it. Using wit, irony and ...

From Defensive Walls to Integrity Thresholds Modern relationship culture teaches two messages at the same time. Seek deep intimacy and enforce firm boundaries. While both appear healthy, this article exposes the tension between them. True intimacy is not built on constant self-protection but on the gradual lowering of unnecessary guards through trust, vulnerability and integrity. When boundary language becomes absolutised, it often functions as armour rather than clarity, limiting depth inste...

When Silence Masquerades as Wisdom and Becomes Emotional Evasion Avoidance often disguises itself as maturity. We call it patience. We call it strategy. We call it giving things time. In relationships, teams and partnerships, silence can look calm and composed while quietly eroding trust beneath the surface. This article explores the psychological roots of avoidance and its long-term relational cost. It examines the subtle difference between intentional pause and emotional escape, and why ...

When Pathologising Others Casually Replaces Responsibility and Distorts Sense-Making The term narcissism has drifted from clinical precision into casual accusation. What was once a serious psychological construct is now routinely applied to confidence, assertiveness, boundary setting and leadership presence. This article argues that such inflation is not harmless. It dilutes genuine pathology, erodes relational responsibility, and reflects a broader failure in disciplined sense-making. Gro...

Why sincerity, love and value do not always arrive where they are offered This article explores a subtle yet deeply human form of suffering that does not arise from rejection or loss, but from proximity. It examines what happens when something real, sincere and valuable is offered, yet cannot be received, not because it lacks worth, but because readiness, orientation or reception is missing. Moving beneath surface explanations, the article traces how longing can exist without the capacity ...

Mourning, Memory and the Ethics of Unresolved Justice This essay explores a recurring human pattern in which innocence is publicly established yet justice is deliberately withheld. Rather than examining injustice as overt oppression or political conflict, it approaches the phenomenon phenomenologically, focusing on what occurs when systems acknowledge truth but refuse its ethical implications. Drawing on Persian cultural memory and the enduring mourning associated with the figure of Siavash, ...

How Sustainabilism Replaced Structural Reform with Behavioural Theatre Using familiar moments from everyday life, this article examines how modern Sustainabilism has come to function more as a moral performance than a genuine solution. Through the quiet absurdity of fragile paper bags and checkout rituals, it shows how responsibility for environmental harm has been steadily shifted from institutions, supply chains, and industrial design onto individual consumers. While recognising that indivi...

Where Support No Longer Fuels Growth but Subsidises Dysfunction and Compensates for Someone’s Lack of Performance This article confronts one of the most overlooked realities in leadership, coaching and human development. While the Being Framework is rooted in the principle that human beings are not fixed and are capable of profound transformation, it also recognises that transformation is not universally available at any moment. It requires willingness, coherence, responsibility and the cap...

How Societies Collapse When Scapegoats Replace Modulation This article examines why systems collapse and why it almost never happens because of a single event, leader or foreign power. Using the trajectories of Iraq and Syria as case studies, it shows how societies drift from integrity into disintegration when their contradictions remain unresolved and their capacity to modulate is gradually lost. Drawing on the Systemic Subversion Cycle, first introduced in the 2025 Sustainabilism book as...

Iran: A Governing System Poised Between Renewal and Decline How Shadows, Contradictions and Rigid Governance Have Shaped the Country’s Future – A Being Framework Case Study on the Urgency of Modulation This analysis examines the Islamic Republic’s governing system through an ontological lens rather than a political one. In this context, ontology refers to how a person or a system is being. It captures the deeper qualities that shape how authorities perceive reality, form intentions, ...

How systems reveal their failure long before they fall apart We often imagine collapse as something sudden. A revolution. A currency crash. A breaking point you can point to on a calendar. But systems rarely fall that way. Most begin to unravel long before anyone notices. They lose their rhythm, their clarity and their ability to correct themselves. Their descent is slow, almost invisible, until it becomes irreversible. This article explores why that happens. It explains how human systems ...

A Phenomenology of Recurrence and Why Revolution Fails to Become Transformation: An Inquiry with Iran as an Illustrative Case This article explores a deeper pattern that explains why revolutions keep returning and why real change so often fails to take root. Instead of focusing only on politics or historical events, it examines what happens to societies when their systems begin to break down and when people’s ways of making sense of the world become distorted. Using Iran as a case study, it...