Signal to noise? The primary signal is noise. Most of the partisan #insecurity and frictive #political tribalism we are currently experiencing represents convergence towards the regenerative bonding and binding turbulence of high probability, low-energy system macrostates. (Gossip? Tabloid news? Best Practice? Doctrine? Belief? Ideology? Ethics? The underlying dynamics are considerably less flattering or reassuring than we might at first choose to believe.)
Got an opinion on this? Of course you do, a compulsion to assert affiliation or differentiating self-determination precisely is the adaptively performative human experience of, and sociopsychological engagement with, entropy in (and as) technologically-mediated communication systems, at scale.
Stochastic, fantastic and autonomously self-propagating: meaningless noise is not a peripheral factor here, it is the kernel core of planetary civilisation, of life and of human experience. Bold statement? Nope, just more scattered tokens of transient narrative confetti cast upon this swiftly moving stream of communicative reflex and intractable ambiguity.
Heraclitus, of course, had an interesting position on rivers and change…
Daedelus Kite 