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Philosophy

At the Edge of Meaning

Nietzsche once suggested that metaphysics is about as useful to the struggles and uncertainties of embodied life as would be knowledge of the chemical composition of water to a boatman facing a storm. The force of the remark is not hostility to thought but a boundary placed around it. In conditions of living and existential […]

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cybernetics

Political Economy

Capitalism is not in and of itself evil. It emerged as a decentralised coordination mechanism: a way to allocate resources, distribute risk, and accelerate innovation in a world too complex for central planning. Markets lifted living standards, expanded technological capabilities, and enabled mobility across class and geography. Yet the same dynamics that reward initiative also […]

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Philosophy

Value, Meaning, Truth

No one owns anything (or anyone!), in any ultimate sense. Deal with it. 🙂