It is a little hard not to feel somewhat dispossessed and saddened by the arc of catastrophe that human history traces in time. There is some essential adversarial turn in psychology and nature that provides and requires the entropy from which new forms of thought and life are able to emerge. We come to depend […]
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As you get older it seems that your options diminish, quite literally and as entropy takes hold the vast numbers of disordered states that you might end up in become less improbable, more certain. It is not so much a matter of age as it is of experience and an aggregate burden of negotiating the […]
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Amazon Inferno
The Amazon is burning and with it is going humanity’s hope of holding back the worst consequences of Global climate change.
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Hong Kong: Umbrellas on the Go Game
The international society of nations, such as it is, is not very often seeking clever solutions to the problems that it itself is generating, across all countries and conflicts. Each instance of dissonance is a microcosm of a global property of discontinuity, a distributed planetary discord that is oblivious to nation or ideology and that we all are dealing with, wherever we are.
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Self-Knowledge of Nature
We are sentient nature.
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Ecological Logic
A holistic logic is discontinuous, non-linear, enigmatic and – in the face climate change – mandatory.
There are always things beyond the intelligible boundaries of the cognitive logic and cultural grammars within which we live.
The catastrophic entropy of a currently most-probable future is not the only available solution in the possibility-space of all emergent and adaptive human planetary civilisations.
Compared to Climate Change, Brexit is small cheese.
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The Great Unknown
It is only an immature psychological and cultural status which seeks certainty and completion in all things and in so doing, generates endless entropy and confusion. Science has no logical endpoint.
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The Hollow Men
One thing I notice about getting older is the way that things start to get away from you…
Conflict and the means or methods of its execution lie at the center of all personal and (by extension or necessary inversion) collective history.
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