Theory

What I asked was simple: If you believe in justice, start here. If you believe in access, help carry my case. If you believe in truth, stand beside my account. If you believe in care, risk being changed by what you hear. But Joe Ceci didn’t.

When the pain is intense enough, you cease to be someone in the world. You become a body against the world. The bench beneath you becomes strange. The air seems distant. Language cracks under the pressure. Even your name starts to feel like someone else’s.

Ever wonder how someone “snaps”? This isn’t about madness—it’s about process. Bureaucracy doesn’t just fail people; it sometimes creates the very dangers it claims to prevent. Here’s a breakdown of how dangerous people are manufactured—not by ideology, but by institutional silence and moral collapse.

I walked away from a significant financial offer, enough to keep a roof over my head, enough to buy time, finish school, stabilize. I knew exactly what it would cost me. I did it anyway. Because I knew what signing would mean.

our systems don’t actually understand happiness. They understand compliance. They understand visibility. But they don’t know how to ask whether someone’s life contains any reason to feel good—not abstractly, but concretely. They mistake survival for health. And they mistake emotional numbing for success.