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Symbolic Traffic

Language is a game in which winning, or apparent success, is characterised, celebrated, and sustained by the relational value of tokens within it. What actually wins is the communication system itself. Human projects, without exception, are functions of belief within language, of language. Success is the generation of more language. Wealth, politics, and sociocultural dominance […]

Philosophy

Planetary Leadership Crisis

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Post date Dec 29, 2025
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We are not simply, or only, facing a crisis of leadership or values. We are facing a coordination failure at planetary scale, driven by technologies and institutions that reward domination, speed, and spectacle while quietly eroding the conditions that make intelligence, civilisation, and continuity possible at all. This is not a morality play. It is […]

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Metabolic Power

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Post date Dec 28, 2025
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Modern power does not stabilise disorder. It metabolises it. At planetary scale, technological and financial systems do not merely respond to uncertainty. They generate specific instabilities that make their own interventions appear necessary, then present themselves as the most probable remedy. This is not a claim about intent. It is a structural tendency of adaptive […]

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Desire

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Post date Dec 28, 2025
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Desire does not move in straight lines. It curves. It sustains itself through distance, delay, and asymmetry, forming a logical orbit rather than a trajectory toward fulfilment. What appears in lived experience as longing or pursuit is not a failure of arrival but the mechanism by which relational systems remain open rather than collapse into […]

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Freedom from Self

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Post date Dec 26, 2025
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Freedom is not something the self acquires; it is what becomes possible when the self loosens its grip. The more freedom is claimed by the self, the more tightly the self binds itself to definitions, expectations, dependencies, and obligations that must be maintained. Identity hardens. Choice narrows into rehearsal. Autonomy turns into enclosure. What is […]

Tags adaptive capacity, attention dynamics, authoritarian psychology, cognitive entrainment, complexity systems, field logic, freedom from self, global interdependence, identity and freedom, invariance under transformation, non self psychology, political affect, relational identity, rigidity and fragility, self-propagation, systemic collapse

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Logical Failure

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Post date Dec 26, 2025
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It is possible to speak about what is often labelled fascism without centring moral judgement, and instead treat it as a systemic configuration whose failure follows from structural incompatibility rather than ethical evaluation. Moral objections may be justified, but they are not what makes this form unsustainable. The failure arises from how such a configuration […]

cybernetics

Global Field Logic

Applying field logic to the global socio-economy means treating politics not as the source of direction but as a surface articulation of deeper structural dynamics. By field logic, I mean understanding social, economic, and technological systems as continuous relational environments that shape what can stabilise, propagate, or decay before intention, belief, or ideology come into […]

Tags attention economy, cascading failure, communication systems, complexity theory, edge of chaos, emergence, entropy dynamics, field logic, global socio economy, governance limits, harmonic structure, meaning and continuity, political affect, self-propagation, structural instability, systemic collapse

Philosophy

Hollow States

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Post date Dec 26, 2025
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No complex system is complete, and none ever settles into final coherence. It persists by operating near its own failure modes, always collapsing toward equilibrium without arriving there. This condition is not exceptional; it is constitutive. Collapse is not what ends systems, but what allows them to reproduce themselves. Systems endure by continuously redistributing error, […]

Philosophy

Absurd Superficiality

The absurdity of the social media game is structural, not moral. Everyone is incentivised to speak, assert experience, belief, or fact, yet attention is allocated to whatever compresses fastest. To be heard, meaning is thinned, context stripped, time and place over-determined into slogans. Throughput beats processing. What looks like participation is actually a selection regime […]

Tags algorithmic amplification, attention economy, cognitive compression, communication systems, Complexity, cultural pathology, digital culture, epistemic collapse, field logic, information overload, media critique, sense making, social media, systems theory

Philosophy

Rising Tide

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Post date Dec 25, 2025
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A tidal wave of technologically mediated stupidity is upon us. Never has the output of so much intellectual aptitude been so efficiently commercialised and politically transduced into such meaningless, misanthropic sludge. Conflict is not inevitable, but pragmatism suggests the commercial dividend drives this dynamic ahead of—and to some extent prior to—any sustainably humanistic rationality. The […]

Tags cognitive degradation, commercialisation, media systems, political economy, stupidity, technological mediation

Philosophy

Armageddon Absurdity

Across the world, the sociocultural reality we call civilisation exists only as a field of shared meaning and communicative patterns held in living minds and enacted through collective interaction. If the population of minds sustaining that field were abruptly extinguished, the artefacts of culture — cities, texts, technologies, narratives — would persist physically but would […]

Tags anthropocene risk, apocalyptic art, christmas apocalypse, civilisation fragility, dark christmas imagery, doomsday imagery, end of civilisation, entropy and meaning, existential absurdity, global catastrophe, holiday irony, meaning collapse, nuclear war symbolism, nuclear winter, philosophy of extinction, post nuclear landscape, semantic emptiness, systems collapse, thermodynamics entropy

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Technological Gullibility

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Post date Dec 25, 2025
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We are repeatedly assured—quietly, implicitly—that technology is beneficial, inevitable, and continuous. Accepting this assurance has become a mark of sophistication, a moral alibi that aligns seamlessly—and not accidentally—with reverence for wealth and the wealthy. What enriches those at the top is treated as evidence of correctness. Profit becomes a proxy for proof. Wealth no longer […]

Tags abstraction and control, accountability and responsibility, capital and legitimacy, coherence as validation, coherence vs truth, correspondence theory, critical theory technology, cybersecurity philosophy, deferred cost, deferred harm, description vs experience, digital capitalism, epistemic authority, field logic, hyper-capitalism, hypercapitalism, identity systems, inequality as control, institutional inertia, meaning and coherence, momentum over outcomes, narratives of progress, profit as proof, progress myth, selective accounting, semantic coherence, social trust erosion, sociotechnical systems, surveillance capitalism, systemic risk, systems inertia, systems theory, techno-ideology, technological gullibility, technological inevitability myth, technology and power, technology critique, wealth and epistemic power, wealth and power