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systems

The Purpose of Stupid Ideas

Does human stupidity actually serve a sociological purpose ?

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culture politics Psychology systems

Directionless: The Teleological Vacuum of Global Civilisation

Humanity spends far too much time bickering and fighting over how we will collectively move forward to ever actually get on with the very serious business of actually ensuring our own continuity, survival and ongoing tenure on this planet.

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communication Psychology systems

Self-Propagating Memetic Information Systems

Human minds are self-propagating patterns of information that are implicitly biased towards seeking biological, cultural and technological methods of (self-)reproduction.

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politics systems

Populist Simplicity

The road to hell is paved with populist simplicities.

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Philosophy systems

The Self-Replicating Logic of Life

Life is notoriously difficult to pin down and unambiguously define.

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history systems technology

Accelerating Frames of History

The moving frame, having moved, drags itself ever onwards…

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Philosophy systems

Long Days and Short Lives on Planet Earth

The Universe is under absolutely no obligation to be (or become) intelligible and neither, it seems, as incorporate microcosms of whatever all this grand dancing complexity is, are we.

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culture politics systems

On Facts, Truth and Public Narratives

You could be mistaken for believing that the primary public narratives and political engagements of our era are dominated by simpletons and misanthropes…

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Organisation politics systems

Disassembling Global Order

We can’t have peace because we are unable to precisely and concisely define and sustain the conditions of assurance, continuity and coherence which could provide that peace within a contemporary, shared conceptual framework…

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Ontology Philosophy physics spacetime systems

Self-Gravitation

Stepping off from a clockwork world of linear dynamics and a simple algebra of actors, effects and geopolitical stages into a new conceptual vocabulary of complex and multidimensional, plastic spaces and warping logical dimensions…

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culture politics systems

Trumping conspiracy: On NOT Turning History into toilet paper…

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…

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culture Philosophy systems

Parasitic Systems

We are the hosts…