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There is a strange contradiction at the center of modern life: society worships fame and wealth, yet the people who achieve them often crumble under their psychological burden. Celebrities, billionaires, influencers, tycoons, tech founders—these are the faces the world is trained to desire, imitate, and glorify. But behind the polished interviews, designer clothes, staged photos, and million-dollar smiles lies a very different story: a reality shaped by anxiety, isolation, surveillance, emotional instability, and a pressure so relentless that even the strongest personalities break under it. Fame and wealth are often imagined as liberation. In reality, they are a form of captivity. The walls are golden, the ceilings are high, the doors are wide—but the person inside becomes smaller, lonelie...

International Men’s Day arrives every year with barely a whisper. It passes like a shadow—quiet, unnoticed, often mocked, sometimes ignored—despite being dedicated to half the world’s population. There are no campaigns splashed across cities, no global movements of empathy, no special broadcasts or celebrity tributes. Instead, it slips by with a heavy kind of silence, a silence that mirrors the unspoken ache within millions of men who have been taught—since boyhood—to swallow their emotions until even they can no longer taste them. We call men protectors, providers, guardians, anchors, shields, foundations. We praise their strength, resilience, reliability. Yet we almost never call them human. We forget, or refuse to acknowledge, that the faces behind these roles are often trembling, exhau...

In the cities we inhabit, there’s a quiet war being waged — not with weapons, but with design. From slanted benches to metal spikes on flat surfaces, from dividers on public ledges to cold bars that split benches into uncomfortable thirds, this is not simply urban planning. It’s hostile architecture — and its target is the very people cities are meant to serve. You may have passed it without even noticing. That cold concrete structure under a bridge studded with bumps. That polished bench with unforgiving armrests. That strange protrusion under a storefront awning that prevents anyone from lying down. These are deliberately unfriendly designs, meant to discourage loitering, sleeping, resting, or gathering — particularly by the unhoused, the youth, the elderly, and the marginalized. ...

In the heart of Hangzhou, China, a 36+ story residential mega-complex is redefining what it means to live in a high-density urban environment. The Regent International Apartment Complex, housing 20,000 people (with a maximum capacity of 30,000), operates like a self-contained vertical city, complete with supermarkets, entertainment venues, and even swimming pools. While some hail it as a modern solution to urban overcrowding, others liken it to a real-life dystopian society—where thousands of people are crammed into a single structure, rarely needing to step outside. So, what does it really cost to live in this ultra-dense housing project? What It Costs to Live in the Mega-Apartment One of the key draws of Regent International is its affordability. Compared to skyrocketing real ...