Artificial intelligence will destroy us all only, or at least primarily, to the degree that human greed uses it as an amplifier. The destruction isn’t coming—it’s already underway.
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Automating Extinction
Category: culture
Democracy is often assumed to be more resilient than it is. What is becoming clear in the United States is that its very openness—the freedoms of speech, assembly, and communication—provide the leverage points through which anti-democratic forces operate. If democratic systems can be bent or flipped using relatively low energy—disinformation campaigns, procedural manipulation, networked mobilization—then […]
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Institutional Bullshit
Institutions are adept at naming their own failures but structurally incapable of addressing them. The bureaucratic cycle rewards discussion, reports, committees, and procedures that extend problems rather than resolve them. What gets called “management” is often the art of sustaining a tolerable stalemate, a perpetual negotiation that keeps the machinery alive without meaningfully engaging the […]
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Insecure Political Identity
Conflict emerges not as a necessity but as a probabilistic orientation, seeded by inherited biological reflexes and cultural traditions that tilt cognition toward opposition. The self-determining narratives that grow from this inclination reinforce and entrench opposition until behaviours and thought patterns sustain the narrative above and beyond any substantive rationale for it. Evolutionary pressures honed […]
Analysis is always double-edged. To describe how a system functions is also to provide a how-to, a cookbook for replication. You don’t need to intend it. The moment you show how the parts connect, you’ve revealed the pattern, and anyone watching can use that knowledge to tighten the loop. This isn’t limited to ideology or […]
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The Engine of Tyranny
Blame draws breath. Inhale the fear of other people. Exhale the accusation that keeps the fear alive. Each cycle promises control—naming enemies, drawing boundaries, standing strong—but strength here is a mask. What passes for rebellion only generates new codes, new rituals, new obligations. Rules always return, harsher and more brittle, precisely because they are denied. […]
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Fascism Redux: Brittle, Brutal, Broken
The more you blame others, the more afraid you become. The more afraid you become, the more you need to blame others. Blame draws breath: inhale the fear of others, exhale the accusation that keeps it alive. The cycle is seductive because it feels like control—naming enemies, drawing lines, standing strong—but what sustains it is […]
Depression exposes something inverted about social logic. It is treated as a personal weakness, yet the condition of not fitting in is the very pressure that gives the idea of “fitting in” its force. The loops of belonging expand endlessly, always moving the target, ensuring that nobody ever quite succeeds. In practice, exclusion is the […]
Belief systems—political, spiritual, cultural—are not merely catalogues of doctrine or symbolic taxonomies but function as frictional zones where indeterminate claims meet, clash, and persist. The turbulence generated by unprovable assertions—whether about metaphysical truth, national destiny, or social justice—creates a binding tension. This tension provides the continuity through which institutions, rituals, and governance structures stabilize themselves, […]
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Relationship Roulette
Dating apps don’t sell love. They sell the chase. Their business model only works if most people fail to find lasting relationships. A happy couple deletes the app and disappears from the revenue stream. That means personal, social, even biological success—stable intimacy, family, belonging—represents commercial failure. So the platforms are designed to keep you searching. […]
Green Day released American Idiot in 2004, a punk rock anthem that crystallized the frustration of a generation living through the Bush administration, the Iraq War, and the saturation of 24-hour news. It railed against conformity, fear-driven politics, and the sense that public discourse was being flattened into soundbites. The track spearheaded the concept album […]
It’s interesting that when you get sick and fall through the gaps in regards to unemployment, social engagement, there’s no support. You’re basically thrown out as far as possible, as quick as possible, and it is made as hard as possible to come back. That is the basis upon which social value is built, upon […]
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