Culture, Communication, Complexity.

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Social Media and a Self-Curated Spiral of Depression

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Post date Jul 6, 2019
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Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?

Tags angst, Complexity, dependency, depression, emotion, emptiness, ennui, entropy, fear, information, instagram, life, loneliness, loss, Psychology, sadness, social, social media, society

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The Creativity of Cultural Erasure

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Post date Jul 6, 2019
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Every act of creativity and recombinatory cultural reconfiguration is both additive and subtractive – it is an addition of complexity and structure and is simultaneously the systemic logical negation of existing methods and strategies of organisation and thought.

Tags art, change, cognition, evolution, extension, fractal, incompleteness, information, iteration, logic, mathematics, metamorphosis, negatiin, phase transition, Philosophy, Psychology, recursion, system

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A Fascination with Broken Things

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Post date Jul 6, 2019
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Broken things and imperfect people are often far more interesting than are complete and whole ones…

Tags art, asymptote, beauty, broken, crime, death, desire, dissonance, emptiness, entropy, evil, fate, fear, graffitti, hate, imperfection, impossible, life, loss, love, other, sadness, self, tattoo, visceral, war

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The Abject Dissolution of Object Relations

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Post date Jul 6, 2019
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We find ourselves endlessly aspiring towards procedurally patterned symmetries of refinement in an iterated and accelerating aspiration towards beauty, knowledge and control.

Tags art, damien hirst, desire, emptiness, enigma, entropy, incompleteness, love, other, Philosophy, Psychology, self

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Unattainable You

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Post date Jul 6, 2019
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You can not be whole for the same reason you can not control the world – there is at base no controller, knower or self and this is the greatest unacknowledged enigma of our world.

Tags beauty, control, desire, emptiness, enigma, freedom, knowledge, love, Psychology, self

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Democracy and Authoritarianism are Strange Bedfellows

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Post date Jul 1, 2019
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There is only one underlying logical information system – all ideologies are contingent interpretations that are biased towards selfish needs.

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The Necessary Evolution of Difference and Conflict

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Post date Jun 30, 2019
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Conflict and the means or methods of its execution lie at the center of all personal and (by extension or necessary inversion) collective history.

Tags civilisation, civilization, conflict, difference, evolution, fact, history, holism, holistic, humanity, ideology, information, intelligence, logic, other, Peace, physics, politics, Psychology, recursion, self, systems, truth, war, wisdom

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Rethinking Conflict

Coming conflicts will be won by those who can most effectively, efficiently, continuously and adaptively rebuild themselves and their ways of life through successful negotiation and engagement with the recombinatory logical evolution of information and energy from which biology, humanity, technology and civilisation have emerged.