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inoti.online · Independent writing · English / HungarianAbout
About
inoti.online
A place for writing, inconvenient questions and the occasional suspicion that the official version may not be the whole story.
An independent bilingual literary platformTwo languages. One independent point of view.
I.N.I.
There are already enough places offering certainty.
inoti.online was created for something slightly less fashionable: independent writing that takes a closer look at the stories we accept, the explanations we repeat and the strange arrangements that somehow begin to feel normal.
The subjects are familiar enough—power, money, work, technology, history, relationships and the habits of human beings. The perspective is less interested in declaring what everyone ought to think than in asking why certain things have become so easy to stop thinking about.
This is not a newsroom and not a collection of polished certainties. It is a growing bilingual space for literary satire, personal observation and conversation, built around Alex Buday’s Illusions Not Included project.
The central idea
Illusions Not Included
The writing begins from a simple suspicion: reality rarely becomes more convincing merely because its explanation has been repeated often enough.
Some pieces follow the machinery of politics and markets. Others look at everyday work, cultural habits, historical memory or the curious authority we assign to appearances. Their common ground is a literary, personal kind of satire that prefers recognition to a ready-made punchline.
English and Hungarian are not treated as interchangeable labels. Each edition speaks to its own readers while keeping the same habit of looking twice.
Illusions Not Included →Satire · Essays · Observations · Conversation
The world is rarely short of explanations. It is merely short of honest ones.
What you will find here
A small platform with room for thought.
Notes
A public bilingual notebook where readers can share brief observations, questions and thoughts of their own.
Two editions
Separate English and Hungarian reading paths, connected to their own Substack publications and the wider Illusions Not Included project.
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