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Dark Tide

Post author By G
Post date Apr 15, 2026
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Most people, across most of history, have probably just tried to survive and get on with living in an already difficult world, while watching domineering fools drag whole societies into imperial escapades, compensatory aggression, and other remedial engagements with reality. For ordinary people, the view has often been one of exhausted disbelief: not only horror […]

Tags authoritarian drift, civilisational fatigue, dark editorial art, dystopian allegory, fear and greed, geopolitical instability, global politics, imperial decline, institutional failure, ordinary people, political absurdity, power and propaganda, public exasperation, systems critique, war and spectacle

Philosophy

Stultification Tsunami

The problem is not stupidity. Stupid ideas, taken individually, are manageable. They can be argued with, filtered, contextualised, ignored, or simply outgrown. Human cultures have always contained vast quantities of nonsense and survived quite well. That is not what is new. What is new is scale. A tsunami is not dangerous because each molecule of […]

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