Authored Books

If Only We Knew: How Ignorance Creates and Amplifies the Greatest Risks Facing Society

If only we knew. If only we realized how subtly our lives have been influenced by an elite class that has shaped the world we live in. The ultra-wealthy have guided us into a reality where their interests come first. They manipulate the structures that define our daily lives, ensuring that every day, we, the masses, reproduce this system by living out the lives capitalism has imposed upon us. We’ve been manipulated into sustaining this exploitative machine, kept ignorant of our potential to live securely and flourish through cooperation.

In this book, I argue the wealth of the elite isn’t built on mere dollars and cents but on distraction, on a labyrinth of lies that keeps us stumbling. Capitalism is a relentless machine, feeding off human suffering to keep its gears turning. Ignorance acts as the oil that keeps it running smoothly.

With the people’s attention turned toward the fight for low-wage jobs, the struggle to pay rent, and the shallow political and cultural debates pushed by mass media, the wealthy elite stay firmly in control. The elite use their control over information to pit us against each other, fueling racial divisions, maintaining mass incarceration, and allowing gun violence to devastate communities. Meanwhile, they keep us unhealthy with poor working conditions and restricted access to nutritious food, only to charge exorbitant prices for healthcare when we inevitably get sick. They construct the illusion of a meritocracy but stack the deck in favor of those with wealth, social connections, and cultural capital, making real upward mobility nearly impossible. Dazzling us with the possibility of climbing the ladder, the elite hide how the system requires a vast majority to stay at the bottom, providing the cheap labor that keeps capitalism running. This society is built to ensure not everyone can thrive, protecting the elite’s position at the top where they profit from those below. While we scramble for survival, they quietly consolidate their wealth and power.

Our suffering feeds their system, lubricating the gears of profit, grinding down humanity into desperation, into endless cycles of selling and consuming. Selling ourselves, our time, our bodies, our souls. Buying back fleeting comforts, scraps of meaning, anything to fill the void left by what we’ve lost.

They build and breed ignorance. They aim to make sure we never even know we can live another way. They craft a world where alternatives seem distant, utopian fantasies drowned in cynicism. The elite guard the gates to knowledge, locking away solutions that could heal society's wounds. They hide the wisdom that could empower us to flourish, to be free. They’ve dulled our senses, numbed our curiosity, silenced our intellectual hunger. They beat us down, day after day, so that even as the storm of social risks grows darker, we cower.

If Only We Knew lays out the framework to understand exactly how the elite preserve their dominance. It aims to reawaken us to the fact that the wisdom we need has always been with us, buried deep in the lived experience of our communities, in the stories and resilience passed down through generations, and in the power of our individual selves. Together, we will rediscover this well of knowledge, see through the fragile house of cards the elite have constructed, and recognize that their power is not invincible. It’s built on our consent—consent we must become ready to withdraw. The future is ours to reclaim, and with clarity and solidarity, their rule can crumble. If we wake up, hope is on our side.

From Competition to Cooperation (In Progress)

Under capitalism, society is driven by a ruthless ethos of competition, a perpetual race where the finish line is ever-moving. The race for profit demands constant acceleration, pitting isolated individuals against one another in a relentless struggle to sell their labor, skills, and dignity on the market, all for the currency they need to buy the necessities for their survival. Since profit must endlessly expand, so too must competition intensify, fueling an ever-worsening spiral of human suffering, exploitation, and desperation.

From Competition to Cooperation offers a way out of this vicious cycle that has entrapped humanity for generations. The way out is through reorganizing our social relations around the ethos of cooperation. The book lays out a sweeping, transformative vision of a future where labor is slashed to just 150 hours a year for every person. This radical reduction of work is made possible through a strategic integration of cutting-edge technology, efficient resource management, and a collective reorientation toward values of sustainability and community well-being. While bold, the plan is rooted in concrete, actionable steps.

In this envisioned society, money, state power, formal laws, and hierarchical structures vanish. Instead, it operates through the principles of free agreement, mutual aid, decentralization, and consensus-based governance. The path to liberation is relayed as something we build and embody in the present. The future we seek to create emerges through living it now. From Competition to Cooperation serves as the operating manual for how a cooperative society would function.

From Competition to Cooperation speaks to a generation crushed beneath the weight of a system we neither created nor consented to. It calls out to the young and disillusioned, the activists demanding change, the pragmatists trying to make sense of a broken world, the worn-out workers, and the restless minds who dare to ask if endless drudgery, rampant inequality, and environmental collapse is truly all there is. This book is being written for the person who wakes up each morning with a gnawing sense that something in the fabric of our world is profoundly wrong. It’s for those who see their paycheck and feel the suffocating realization that it will never catch up to the relentless pressures of modern life.

This book speaks directly to the millions who have marched in movements like Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion, or Occupy Wall Street, each a cry of defiance against the interlocking chains of oppression and exploitation. At a moment when Gallup polls show a staggering majority of Americans disillusioned with the country’s trajectory, From Competition to Cooperation is a timely and urgent call to action. It addresses the deep dissatisfaction boiling under the surface, offering a roadmap toward a world reimagined through cooperation, justice, and sustainability.

From Competition to Cooperation seeks to galvanize you into action. It serves as a diagnostic tool, revealing the deep-seated ailments of our current social, economic, and political systems. Yet, it is also a prescription, offering tangible, step-by-step measures to build a society where mutual aid is the foundation. This is a book that doesn't merely aspire to change minds. It aims to build class consciousness. It aims to change the world.