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Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
Civilisations persist by continually reorganising themselves. The unanswered question is whether conflict, crisis and systemic collapse/renewal remain the principal means through which that persistence is achieved.
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pity the children
A healthy society expects children to become adults. An unhealthy one encourages adults to remain immature.
The technological system cannot perceive its full costs because that blindness is one of the conditions of its success.
We are passing a turning point at which the value of human cleverness becomes actively obscured and wilfully excluded by technocratic over-reach.
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AI isn’t coming to save us
AI can not save us, but it will facilitate a vast amount of short-term profit. The actual human and environmental cost will be considerable.
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harmonic communication
Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.
Much of what capitalism conditions us to fear in communism is what concentrated capitalism already does: centralise power, narrow freedom, restrict opportunity and preserve poverty as structural necessity.
Daedelus Kite 