While it is inordinately difficult to remain politically agnostic or to detach emotion from remote observation of the grotesque inhumanity and unrepentant criminality of an irredeemable decision to inflict Imperialist war upon any nation, just as it is somewhat difficult not to cast a wry smirk in the general direction of self-disassembling totalitarian aspirations to absolute control (quite recently, pictured below), I have been down the rabbit hole of complex systems #analysis for some time and what I encountered there was interesting enough in the light of these military misadventures that it may be worth sharing.
The questions:
• Do integrated, participatory systems of communication reflect and engage a reality that exists in any ultimate sense objectively to our experience (as interpretation) of it?
• Are the variously dissonant artefacts and experiences that we observe in the world precisely what they are because systems of communication are themselves maximally replicated through the presence of such turbulent events?
Finding ourselves serially overwhelmed by the representational (media) information encodings and dissonant inequities of extravagantly misanthropic absurdities in conflict and war, we might do well to ask whether there is something critically unacknowledged here regarding the nature of communication, information and technology and that we may be quite constitutively unable to see. Do the intricately entangled narratives and systems of belief encoded into and as language (or perceptions of history) generate turbulent events as a primary transmission medium for their own persistent and sustainable self-replication?
Technology never progresses quite as fast as when contested contexts of life, community, nation and belief are involved. Does technology (or language) generate conflict as an undirected, emergent method of assuring the change that provides sustainable continuity to these communications systems, if not their inhabitants? Does language (and technology) orient us towards ideological or political dissonance and conflict as this is (or becomes) the optimally generative transmission medium for sustainable communications system self-propagation?
Food for thought: If we do not understand the underlying substrate of why conflict occurs, we might never hope to successfully or preemptively interdict it.
Daedelus Kite 