The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems.
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As the frequency of technological change accelerates, the amplitude and range of uncertainty is concurrently amplified.
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Accelerating Frames of History
The moving frame, having moved, drags itself ever onwards…
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Culture: Gothic Complexity
The primary purpose of cultural systems, sub-systems and sub- or counter-cultures is also their primary method. That is (and fundamentally): the replication of the process of self-replication.
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Inflection
Cultural and technological change and progress is an acceleration measured relative to its own process…
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On Losing Control
Control may be necessary at a personal and social level but is for all that no less a convenient fiction and a contingent, transient illusion than is self…
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In passing…
I remember when I was first introduced to en passant and after the initial shock, denial and eventual aquiescence to the expanded rule-set and spectrum of possibility of that great game of Chess, I could never quite dispel that lingering paranoia that at any moment…
The greatest human tragedies predominantly occur because of our differences…
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Systemic Metamorphosis
Our global bureaucracies (on all scales) can not match pace with the accelerating rates of systemic change within which they find themselves…
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Surrendering to Change
A Conservative fear of identity dissolution underlies a significant proportion of humanity’s political, social and interpersonal pathologies…
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