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cybernetics

The Cold War Never Ended. Capitalism Monetised It.

The Soviet Union collapsed, capitalism declared victory, and everyone went shopping. Now political instability is a profitable industry, foreign adversaries exploit the machinery, and the race to the bottom has become self-financing.

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politics

Ideological Fortresses

Political positions and ideological fortresses are grounded in the need for and dependence upon antitheses. What may be less obvious is that a communications system signal as gradient of ideological difference embodied in adversarial geopolitics is only ever reproduced in and amplified by that competition. Like the ouroboros, it feeds upon the long tail of […]