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Alien Anthropology

Presidential Shit Show

Possibly the least comforting fact in regards to the Oval Office being two sandwiches and a sledge hammer away from becoming the Presidential rage room, is that a wide disaffection and alienated sense of abandonment that has in some measure led to this catastrophic shit show, it’s not entirely wrong. Ah, now there’s a problem: […]

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cybernetics

The Sum of all (us) Fools: Social Media

The dominance of simplistic narratives—and the minds they shape—emerges as a statistical inevitability in high-entropy communication systems. Trillions of micro-interactions cascade through socialmedia daily, drifting toward (those) system attractors that recursively reinforce themselves. Complexity collapses into maximally transmissible, low-dimensional projections.

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cybernetics

Iscariot Chariot: Geopolitical Playtime

American Presidency bought and sold by an oligarch, for an idiot, to a tyrant, for thirty pieces of silver.

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cybernetics

Introvision

Cultural systems are fundamentally recursive.

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Philosophy

Explain Yourself…

Language, with unbounded combinatorial multiplicity and potentially endless degrees of conceptual freedom, remains insufficient to provide the closure or certainty we often seek when navigating the complex worlds and systems of belief we have constructed. Yet it is precisely this absence of closure that makes language meaningful. Meaning is grounded in ambiguity, an irreducible tension […]

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Alien Anthropology

On Mind

On Mind (A Reassuring Perspective) We often picture the mind as something solid—a steady presence behind our thoughts and feelings. It’s comforting to believe that there is a core “self” guiding everything, a firm anchor in a world that can feel uncertain. And yet, when we look more carefully, the mind turns out to be […]

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Alien Anthropology

On Meaning

Meaning does not arise from fixed points of reference. It emerges through tension: the interplay of what is defined and what is not, what is stable and what slips away. We navigate conceptual terrain that is neither a neat set of dictionary entries nor a chaotic sprawl of arbitrary signs. Instead, it is a dynamic […]

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Philosophy

l.c.d. dictation

It’s not always obvious, but it’s grimly consistent: most dictators and autocrats aren’t clever—they’re just willing to be cruel. A few have enough low cunning to seize a moment or twist a system, but intelligence isn’t the driver. It’s laziness, brutality, and the fact that violence is the fastest shortcut to power if you don’t […]

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Alien Anthropology

Peace

When reduced to its essence, the simplicity of global conflict is as horrifying as it is absurd.

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cybernetics

Convergent Stupidity

The phenomenon of societal ‘dumbing down’ is undeniable. While terms like “uninformed” or “disengaged” may seem too blunt, there is a notable drift – both culturally and intellectually – towards a collective state that is increasingly indifferent, uninspired, and detached from genuine engagement with one another. And yet, this shift is layered beneath a polished […]

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Alien Anthropology

US 2024 Election

“I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round…” The 2024 US election is an interesting historical inflection point, quite clearly bordering on hysterical in some regards. The fuel of both political continuity and change is stochastic difference, not unity – a tough pill to swallow. A simple enough concept and yet rendered as almost […]

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cybernetics Philosophy

Bureaucracy

The operational (as regulatory) constraints required to self-propagate a money machine and business or community and ecology of institutional organisation are also the primary braking mechanisms of an inertia that is so profound and so deeply infused within the symbolic, socioaffective and cultural systems we inhabit, that we are as commonly unable to perceive this […]