Unhinged Banality and Myopic Jingoism

It is as fascinating as it is tragic. We may do well to question the eternal recurrence of unhinged banality and myopic jingoism as there are causal mechanisms in play. It is only incidentally about personalities: probability, entropy and adaptive statistical factors occupy the center of gravity. What percolates to ascendance tends to be those lowest-common-denominator artefacts, entities and systems that maximally prime their transmission medium (of minds and artefacts or networks of influence and systems of belief) for existential continuity. This was never about truth.

That the downstream consequences for global civilisation are likely to be anything other than existential continuity occurs to me as yet another resounding irony for wistful reflection.

Context: Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members