WRITING
A living archive of thought, resistance, and recovery.
These are not just articles or blogs — they’re dispatches from a life lived in systems, and steps toward something better. Read them as essays, manifestos, letters, or liturgies.
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🔥 Liturgy of the Burnt Out

Spiritual essays for the structurally exhausted.
A gospel-tinged series about burnout, institutional betrayal, and the long walk back to self.

🎧 Funktion Machine

Where music meets memory and self-led therapy.
Each entry unpacks a song that helped Rob survive, reflect, or reset — weaving lyrics into lived experience.

🧱 Systems & Soul

Analysis without detachment.
Pieces on education, social enterprise, class, equity, and the emotional reality of navigating broken systems.

🌱 Letters & Laments

Personal writing, reflections, and field notes.
Gentle entries, written as if to a friend — sometimes to Ayla and Dylan, sometimes to you.

🌀 Disruption & Design

New models for living and working.
Ideas, provocations, and prototypes for a post-capitalist imagination — drawn from the SPACE and WRP foundations.

📚 Reading the World Differently

Literary reviews, lyrical dissections, and cultural deep dives.
When the world feels off-key, sometimes it’s because we’re reading the wrong map.

© Rob Dawson | Independent Thinker. System Rebuilder.

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