Barnaby Joyce’s sprint into One Nation marks a shift from policy argument to performance theatre. It is not a conversion so much as a wager: that in a crowded media field the shortest message wins. One Nation’s platform thrives on what could be called ideological constipation — gripping a few ideas so tightly they can […]
To know how systems work—minds, technologies, institutions—is to stand at a vantage where the contours of failure are obvious. You see the repeating loops, the patterned insistence on precedent masquerading as wisdom, the reflexive grasp for what was done before as though it could still suffice. Awareness here does not grant influence; it only exposes […]
The language with which we speak and embellish our world with meanings is also the primary method and tool by which we obscure this world and each other from successful comprehension or communication and understanding or compassion and peace. This is irreducible. The more we structure systems of belief as knowledge, the more we obscure […]
Nothing kills pain like the opium of blind faith. It is easier to gaze upon death without eyes. What better way to engage with the horrifying fact and material inevitability of your own non-existence than by denying it exists?
Daedelus Kite 