Essays on Systems and Selves

By Henrik Priedola Tilly

Essays on Systems and Selves explores what it means to be a person and to be a person in the world today. Through five original essays, this collection investigates how systems shape perception, behavior, and political possibility.

Climate Collapse by the Year 2070
The global economic system is leading us towards climate collapse.

Outsourcing Externalities
The comforts of modernity come at the cost of environmental and social destruction.

The European Military-Industrial Complex
European states, through EU and NATO, are increasingly forming a military-industrial complex.

Society Without Free Will
How might a society organize itself around the implications of biological determinism (that our behavior arises from the interaction of complex biological and developmental factors, not free will)?

The Trauma Perspective
The trauma-affected person operating under a different set of assumptions is unintelligible to the world around them.

I write to think, and this book is an attempt to understand both myself and the world with greater clarity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FMKJCHZ5
• ISBN13: 9798296282965
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"