Culture, Communication, Complexity.

Tag: cognitive entrainment

The Herd: How Social Media and Identity Politics Shape Mass Behaviour

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Post date Sep 8, 2026
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This is the triumphal stagnancy of technological overreach: extraordinary technical acceleration coupled to an increasingly repetitive behavioural repertoire.

Tags algorithmic influence, attention economy, behavioural prediction, cognitive entrainment, cybernetics, identity politics, language, mass behaviour, polarisation, political psychology, propaganda, social media, statistical systems, systems theory, technocracy

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Freedom from Self

Post author By G
Post date Dec 26, 2025
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Freedom is not something the self acquires; it is what becomes possible when the self loosens its grip. The more freedom is claimed by the self, the more tightly the self binds itself to definitions, expectations, dependencies, and obligations that must be maintained. Identity hardens. Choice narrows into rehearsal. Autonomy turns into enclosure. What is […]

Tags adaptive capacity, attention dynamics, authoritarian psychology, cognitive entrainment, complexity systems, field logic, freedom from self, global interdependence, identity and freedom, invariance under transformation, non self psychology, political affect, relational identity, rigidity and fragility, self-propagation, systemic collapse