Fascism does not begin with a dictator. It takes shape through recurrent patterns of threat, identity and authority, until a leader can occupy the position those patterns have made available.
Category: Philosophy
Desire and fear appear to pull us in opposite directions, but both persist through the distance they seek to overcome.
We are not outside the world we are trying to understand. We are (all) implicated in its disorders, participants in its reproduction, and responsible for what happens next.
An institution’s measure is not how successfully it preserves itself or claims success, but whether it continues to serve its human purpose.
The AI business model converts new capabilities into dependencies, then turns the resulting risks, maintenance burdens and failures into reasons for further investment.
We have become exceptionally capable of reproducing (our, collective) insecurity in the name of security.
Technology keeps solving the problems technology creates, tightening our dependence on machinery whose cumulative costs keep growing and from which there is no longer any clean exit.
When religious language does more work for political identity than religious ethics do for moral conduct, God becomes useful in ways we should all probably question.
Heaven is not somewhere beyond the world; if it can be said to exist at all, it must be found within the inexhaustibly complex structure already here.
Peace is not merely difficult. We have built institutions, identities, economies and languages whose coherence depends upon the persistence of conflict.
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Belief as Harmonic Structure
Belief is harmonic structure: the recurrent pattern of timing, relation and probability through which language, meaning and experience take form.
A civilisation builds systems to solve its problems, then discovers that the systems have become the problems, while its dependence upon them has made their continuity deeply problematic.
