Australia’s political speed-dating with One Nation suggests that what has happened in the USA is not an exception, it is a franchised political method.
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aristotle’s egg
Coherence emerges from the continual negotiation of irreducible difference. Discrete boundaries and differences are contingent.
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please explain: xenophobia
Xenophobia does not stop a changing world. It converts psychological vulnerability into political power.
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cmd & ctrl, we have a problem
The drone is only the visible object. The real event is the combinatorial explosion of sensors, signals, decisions, delays, targets, countermeasures, and feedback loops.
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exasperating alliteration
Information does not travel through the world like a message through a pipe. It survives by finding asymmetry, delay, resistance, and feedback — then turning those differences into the conditions of its own propagation.
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the conspicuous absence in science
Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.
Change the timing and you change the structure. Communication is not merely the transfer of information through a network but the propagation of signals through media of different densities, delays, and constraints. Small temporal modulations accumulate. Phase shifts become interference patterns. Interference becomes organisation.
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one notion politics
Populism turns complex national problems into kindergarten theatre, then sells the applause as policy.
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populism, unmasked
Populism is not an opinion. It is a phase dynamic.
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strait of hormuz
The more instability surrounds the Strait of Hormuz, the more valuable it becomes. The paradox is that a prolonged conflict may be increasing the strategic importance of one of Iran’s most powerful sources of leverage.
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trillionaire
Civilisation was not built to worship wealth, but it has been redesigned to serve it.
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political theatre
One Nation raised millions for political theatre while a Queensland hospice had to beg for palliative care funding. This is clearly ridiculous but is also hardly an isolated incident of misplaced priorities and dodgy reasoning in sociopolitical systems.
