Necessary Alienation and Communication Complexity

As a general observation regarding science and technology, notice that aggregated explanatory toolsets, artefacts, entities and systems are oriented towards the production and self-validation of knowledge in ways that essentially, perhaps irrevocably, alienate us from ourselves and from each other. Rationally orchestrated system- and self-definition amplifies a signal and gradient of information-as-difference, invoking a function of dissipative energy and information loss that is irreconcilable with ascendant cultural and political narratives.

We are separated from the world, and from each other, to more or less precisely the extent in which we come to understand and describe that world. This is both the cause and the consequence of many if not most but certainly not all of the big-ticket social, cultural and political problems we can observe. Through the differential ontology that unites us, experiencing communicative entropy as meaningless absence or self-deceptively therapeutic (as performative) narcissism becomes normalised, anticipated, and is tacitly viewed as a something of a moral taboo when challenged.

Emotional experience, affective intuition and logical discontinuity are the kinds of things that can be, and very often are, quite easily brushed aside in the mad dash to profit and power that technological hyper-inflation incentivises. Emotional, psychological and political uncertainty, and all disaffective intra- and interpersonal or tribally insecure exasperations, are not simply a consequence of the extended cognition of technologically-mediated communication systems. They represent the necessary preconditions for a globally volatile communications complexity of the kind we are currently witnessing.