Welcome to Dare to be Random, where today’s unlikely oracle is the 2006 IKEA catalog. Yes, that glossy brick of birch veneer dreams and suspiciously affordable optimism. But here’s the question: what does IKEA really tell us about us? Not just what we buy, but what we fear, what we hope, and how badly we want our lives to look “sorted” by page 47. We’ll talk flat packs and flat affect, the existentialism hiding in a perfectly staged living room, and why Ingmar Bergman might stare at a Poäng chair like it’s judging his soul. Grab an Allen key and lets assemble this puzzle together.
