Complex systems persist by inhabiting, invoking, sustaining nonlinear properties, where strict predictability collapses into fragility but feedback loops and fluctuating adaptations sustain continuity. Non-linearity here is less a mathematical technicality than an ontological geometry: the system thrives on unpredictability, dispersing shocks across distributed pathways and drawing from entropy itself as both constraint and medium. This is not chaos, though it may appear so; it is the dangerous, necessary dynamic through which systems sustain metastability.
Hierarchy, political structures, grids of leverage and control, arrogance, and selfishness emerge as inevitable expressions of this same logic, though often in distorted forms. Conflict is internal to the species, a recursive confrontation in which systems regulate themselves through friction and division. What unfolds in America illustrates not an internecine tragedy but a manifestation of this broader self-regulatory representational and technologically mediated confusion, where entropy moves through political forms and institutional beliefs alike. These beliefs are not merely responses to the disorder but constitutive of it, the disease and its symptom simultaneously. The pattern is not uniquely American; it is global, scale-free, surfacing in nations, societies, families, and even minds. Language tries to capture this but remains a game bound by frames too narrow for the dynamics at play, which exist prior to and beyond interpretation.
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With political communication now fully mediated by technology, what appears as crisis is in fact system dynamics under entropic pressure. Instantaneity gives the illusion of closeness, but it produces its own equal and opposite widening of distance and difference. This asymmetry has barely been recognized, let alone accounted for, because the pursuit of immediate results obscures the long-term consequences. The turbulence we see is not mere dysfunction but the inevitable outcome of combinatorial complexity and communicative entanglement at scale.
Such turbulence is structural, not (at core) ideological, and arises from the logic of mediated flows themselves. The task is not to solve this condition as if it were a puzzle with a single answer, but to shape it — to redirect currents, absorb shocks, and distribute stresses in ways that keep the system metastable. Resolution is a false horizon; what persists is the ongoing work of shaping entropy as it moves through the medium.
I wonder if there could be a mass exodus of people from America if the autocratic gavel finally, unambiguously and resolutely falls. You will know this is an issue primarily by a regulatory instinct to control it (from the current administration). Given the clumsiness on display, I’m expecting (yet) another sociopolitical shitshow. Hopefully not, but these are clearly “interesting times”…
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