We live in a society that sees itself as free, modern, fulfilled.
We were told that if everyone follows their own self-interest,
an Invisible Hand will guide us toward balance, prosperity, and happiness.
That was the founding illusion.
Today, that invisible hand builds nothing.
It has become the hand that separates, that abandons, that isolates.
It is the hand of the inhuman algorithm:
the one that decides what deserves attention and what doesn’t,
who should be heard and who can be forgotten.
A hand that measures everything in terms of performance, efficiency, desirability.
A hand that has injected the logic of consumption into human relationships.
There is no more space for connection. No more time for care. The father becomes “no longer functional.” The mother becomes “self-sufficient by decree.” Children turn into emotional investment projects, to be protected — but also divided.
And while all this unfolds, we no longer feel outrage. We no longer stop before a man on the ground, a father who weeps, a child who walks away.
This is the final effect of the invisible hand: the anesthesia of morality.
We are not freer.
We are more alone, more cold.
We have been convinced that happiness is personal, individual, privatized.
And in the name of that abstract happiness,
we have accepted the destruction of everything that once united us.
Families. Communities. Lives. Love.
I have witnessed the disintegration of my family, not as an act of cruelty, but as the result of a system that cannot tolerate connection when it is not efficient.
I have lived through abandonment as a manufactured destiny, separation as a social code, indifference as a relational standard.
And I’ve come to understand that today, if you want to remain human,
you must resist that invisible hand.
You must reject the algorithm that tells you who you are and what you’re worth.
You must feel, you must listen, you must cry, you must remember.
You must stay, when everyone else walks away.
Because the only revolution still possible today is to never stop being human.