Here, Trevor talk about why he writes and how it can be a positive thing for him. He also share a short piece of his writing.
“I write as a way of exploring ideas which interest me. I find writing gives a sense of purpose. In my view, writing is very good for anyone and, in particular, any who carry residual memories from childhood.
Writing evolves naturally and sometimes stories almost write themselves. I find that interesting. Any form of creativity is a benefit and many will already know this from their own experience. Negativity can be turned into positivity by looking at how it arose to begin with.”
The Great Con
By 2026 the world had become a theatre of polished lies. Not the old clumsy kind — the new kind. The kind engineered by consultants, algorithms, and institutions that had long since forgotten what truth even felt like. Every screen glowed with promises. Every voice of authority spoke with the confidence of someone who knew they’d never be held accountable. Every institution — political, commercial, religious — had perfected the same trick:
Sell illusion. Punish doubt. Profit from confusion.
People didn’t live in a society anymore. They lived inside a sales pitch. Politicians were the easiest to spot. They didn’t govern — they performed. Their speeches were stitched together from recycled outrage and pre‑tested slogans. Their smiles were calibrated. Their empathy was scripted. Their convictions were whatever the polling software spat out that morning. They didn’t need to solve anything. They just needed to look like they might.
And the public, exhausted from years of being squeezed, tricked, billed, surveilled, and blamed, clung to the performance because the alternative was admitting the truth:
The people in charge weren’t steering the ship. They were decorating the lifeboats.
