The task is not to create perfect agreement, but to maintain enough shared coherence that a society can continue solving problems without tearing itself apart.
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better politics
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the reflecting pool reflects back
The Reflecting Pool turned green. Perhaps it is simply doing its job.
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kindness
Whatever else a life contains, kindness is what makes it matter.
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populism down under
The appeal of populism is that it makes complexity feel unnecessary. The cost is usually discovered much later.
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reality
Reality is not made of things. Things are what appear when deeper patterns of relation become temporarily stable.
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language as harmonic structure
Meaning is not stored in words; it emerges as harmonic structure through time.
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australia, please…
Populists tell you they’re going to smash the system for your benefit. Funny how it still always seems to end with the rich getting richer, the government getting worse, and everyone else paying for the repairs.
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aristotle’s egg
Coherence emerges from the continual negotiation of irreducible difference. Discrete boundaries and differences are contingent.
Australia’s political speed-dating with One Nation suggests that what has happened in the USA is not an exception, it is a franchised political method.
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please explain: xenophobia
Xenophobia does not stop a changing world. It converts psychological vulnerability into political power.
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cmd & ctrl, we have a problem
The drone is only the visible object. The real event is the combinatorial explosion of sensors, signals, decisions, delays, targets, countermeasures, and feedback loops.
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exasperating alliteration
Information does not travel through the world like a message through a pipe. It survives by finding asymmetry, delay, resistance, and feedback — then turning those differences into the conditions of its own propagation.
