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Alien Anthropology Philosophy

Playing the Long-Game of Human Civilisation

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.

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Alien Anthropology culture

Compared to Climate Change, Brexit is trivial

Compared to Climate Change, Brexit is small cheese.

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Alien Anthropology

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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culture

The Hollow Men

One thing I notice about getting older is the way that things start to get away from you…

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Alien Anthropology

The Necessary Evolution of Difference and Conflict

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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culture

A World at War with Itself

At the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, it is a good time to reflect upon where we are all going as a civilisation and what we might plausibly achieve to inhibit, interdict or halt the possibility of any similar global catastrophes from ever occurring again.

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Alien Anthropology

Premonition of Civil War

The underlying momentum of evolving material logics, symmetries and information systems seem already oriented towards incurring dissonance, difference and entropy as an autonomous method through which their own accelerated logical metamorphosis self-propagates.

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culture

CRISPR Wars: The Inevitability of Technological Entropy ?

The great enigma of scientific and technological progress: for every great leap forwards there exists a concurrent potential for even greater (catastrophic) leaps backwards.

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culture Philosophy Science

Catastrophy Beyond Imagination

Some dawning realities are so vast that we do not even have words, let alone cognitive methods, to characterise or represent them. Climate Change is one of these realities.

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culture

Humanity: Havoc or Hope ?

Humanity requires a singular, unifying goal…

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culture Organisation

Continuity of Civilisation

There may be an irresolvable existential bottleneck between self-seeking commercial incentives and the long-term continuity of human civilisation.

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culture

Retrospective: Uncivilised Economies

Impoverished individuals, groups and cultures are endlessly blamed for their own existential distress but the causes of such inequitable wealth distribution are functionally structural and endemically psychological in nature…