Human beings may never be clever enough to harness and benefit from the symmetries of information and energy flows as already exist in the natural world…
Category: culture
Order and Decay
Entropy and disorder are inevitable, mismanagement of their consequences is not.
Frustration
Not everyone sees the world the way you do…
Do organisations breed misanthropy and functional inefficiency or do they actually breed *through* these narrow-band entropies ?
Buddhist psychology almost exclusively locates the preponderance of human misery in this world to the many and diverse methods by which we attach ourselves to things in the world, to objects, possessions, people and ideas…
Over-Engineering the Information Age
Within this technological civilisation the developmental focus and attribution of value is biased primarily towards quantity over quality and method over meaning…
Theories of Everything
Grand Theories are impressive, but there seems to me to always be something more…
Retrospective: Uncivilised Economies
Impoverished individuals, groups and cultures are endlessly blamed for their own existential distress but the causes of such inequitable wealth distribution are functionally structural and endemically psychological in nature…
Some organisational principles do not scale linearly…
Loneliness may be to some extent inevitable; suffering as a consequence is probably not…
Self-propagating linguistic methods, full of culturally recursive sound and fury; signifying nothing…
On the Streisand Effect and great legal backfires of history: litigation makes for great PR.