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power

the strange ontology of power

Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.

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Philosophy

the value of nothing

The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.

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politics

political speed-dating down under: the golden bulldozer

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.