33 Myths of the System
Darren Allen
I would like to thank David Edwards, of Media Lens, for his extraordinarily generous support over the past ten years.
Cover design and text layout by Darren Allen.
Cover illustration by Ai Higaki.
The digital version of this book is free and is offered under a ‘creative commons’ licence; specifically an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (cc by-nc-sa 4.0) license. This means that you are free to share and use anything herein, to modify and propagate it, provided that you also ‘share alike’ with the same license. It does not permit commercial use though because I still live in the system and still need some coin from it, so if you plan to print this book and make money from it, please get in contact with me first. I’ll probably say yes.
Contents
i. Preface to the Series: The Revolutionary’s Paradox
ii. Foreword to 33 Myths of the System
iii. A Brief History of the System
1. The Myth of Economics
2. The Myth of Money
3. The Myth of Scarcity
4. The Myth of [Class] Equality
5. The Myth of Meritocracy
6. The Myth of Competition
7. The Myth of Choice
8. The Myth of Freedom
9. The Myth of Truth
10. The Myth of Nature
11. The Trickle Down Myth
12. The Myth of Progress
13. The Myth of Peace
14. The Myth of the Law
15. The Myth of Nice
16. The Myth of Democracy
17. The Myth of Education
18. The Myth of Authority
19. The Myth of Culture
20. The Myth of Fun
21. The Myth of Work
22. The Myth of Uniqueness
23. The Myth of Science
24. The Myth of Relativism
25. The Myth of Religion
26. The Myth of Mental Illness
27. The Myth of Psychology
28. The Professional Myth
29. The Myths of Pseudogender & Monogender
30. The Myth of Catastrophic Offence
