E pluribus unum, a phrase born of an early republic trying to hold together difference without crushing it, means quite plainly out of many, one, yet its force lies not in patriotism or unanimity but in the harder truth that a coherent whole does not precede its parts but arises only because distinct lives, voices, […]
Intelligence is becoming a liability. Not socially ornamental intelligence, not credentialed cleverness, but actual understanding. The kind that sees structure, delay, recursion, consequence. The kind that notices when a system is lying to itself. That form of intelligence generates friction. It interrupts performance. It destabilises belonging. It exposes the hidden costs that simple stories are […]
New Year’s Eve is not a clean break in time. It is a maintenance ritual. It presents itself as a boundary between years, as if time were neatly divided and we simply step from one container into the next. That framing works because cognitive, communicative systems like ours require distinctions to operate. We draw lines […]
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