An epidemiological approach to violent crime ? It has proven to be a successful strategy and seems to me to be eminently sensible.
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Spontaneous Savant ?
Spontaneous savant syndrome…
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Revolutionary Fallacy ?
Sic semper tyrannis…
A national Executive unfurling inarticulate and episodic errors of judgement and failures of intelligence like ragged, torn and soiled toilet paper across history’s grand cartography…
I imagine that part of the beauty of an equation in physics lies in the sense in which it serves as an algorithmic information compression of the phenomena, system or relationship it describes…
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Student Debt: Paid Off
What else can this be but an embarrassment that a nation now hard-codes the impossibility of economic success into the methods required to obtain it ?
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Cultural Systems and Useful Entropy
Even apparently useless phenomena usually have an implicit purpose or reason to exist. It just requires a little lateral thought to untangle the complexity a little…
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You are not Your Own
Are you reducible to a mere bank balance, a browser-history, or a litany of parking offences ? It is because you are so much more than this that you are also, uncategorisably, implicitly, in and of your self – an emptiness and essential vacuum or void.
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On Autopilot
Having successfully equipped myself with precisely the wrong set of mental tools and concepts to survive in this particular hyper-commercial and aggressively competitive world…
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Human Tide
A clear and present burden of political and commercial “short-term-ism” is that it constantly displaces (its own) costs to the future.
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A Liquid Logic and System of History
My problem is, and pretty much always has been, just how to introduce, articulate and successfully communicate new concepts of representation and comprehension when the paradigm and assumptive frameworks of conventional wisdom fight tooth and nail against novelty or deep (i.e. axiomatic) conceptual, methodological and theoretical innovation ?
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Culture: Gothic Complexity
The primary purpose of cultural systems, sub-systems and sub- or counter-cultures is also their primary method. That is (and fundamentally): the replication of the process of self-replication.
Daedelus Kite 