Sculpture by Tom Otterness at the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station — photo by AleXander Hirka

Daily Insurrections of The Greed Boys

Avarice In Wonderland

aleXander hirka
11 min readMar 5, 2023

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Co-authored with Remington Write.
Photos: “Life Underground” art installation by Tom Otterness at the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station, New York City. Photos by AleXander Hirka.

Digressing Up To The Macro

It was while my partner Tammy Remington and I were talking about our apartment building’s management companies — their lack of concern for tenants and the seemingly unending greed they exhibited — that this bigger conversation arose.

Comparing it to the much-decried hoodlum attempt to “overthrow democracy” on 6 January 2021, we were discussing the deeply planted and all-encompassing system of greed and corruption that runs this country. We agreed that by wielding unchecked power it is far more successful at neutralizing democracy from within than anything the Q-Anon Shaman could ever bring to bear.

The corporate-owned media doesn’t want you to be looking at the men behind this curtain. Keep your eye and fear focused on those protesters, that group of domestic terrorists, Russia, and the spy balloons of China.

The economic and justice system in The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is nothing more than uncontrolled monopolizing crony capitalism. Those in power manipulate the…

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aleXander hirka

Writer, visual artist, philosopher, autodidact, curmudgeon. More than half of what i do is make believe. https://alexanderhirka.nyc