Wars without end, from Iraq to Ukraine, consume generations while manufacturing weapons and enemies in equal measure. Economies strip forests, poison rivers, and churn out disposable goods, all in the name of growth that hollows out the future. Technologies arrive draped in the promise of connection yet leave populations isolated, profiled, and monetised; social media fuels outrage because outrage reproduces faster than reason. These are not separate malfunctions but recursive loops of extraction and decay, converging into a single trajectory where collapse disguises itself as progress, and the system persists precisely because it thrives on its own failures.
Entropy does not discriminate. It flows wherever channels allow it to expand most efficiently: into viral misinformation that outpaces truth, into runaway markets that reward speculation over substance, into ecosystems collapsing under the weight of exploitation. The reproduction of the system is not the reproduction of life—indeed, the inverse increasingly defines our era. Its logic is blind, indifferent to value, wisdom, or survival, maximising only itself. In that unbounded momentum lies the paradox: a humanity undone by the very dynamics that once propelled it into existence.
Daedelus Kite 