As the world approaches catastrophic conflict, wealth and power remain invested in preserving the arrangements driving instability. Asking for peace has become almost absurd, while preparing for destruction is considered perfectly sensible.
Tag: collective responsibility
We have spent billions of years becoming what we are, yet our political and economic systems increasingly reward the destruction of the complex relationships that sustain us. What we stand to lose is beyond calculation, and the tragedy is how unnecessary so much of it is.
Technology, corporate power, political division and institutional decay are undermining civilisation. Understanding how these forces reproduce themselves is the beginning of change.
A civilisation that turns its moral deterioration into public spectacle reorganises the relationships through which political power is recognised, contested and reproduced, making cruelty both a symptom of its decline and a means of perpetuating it.
Disability is not an edge case that happens to someone else. It is a statistical certainty built into biology and time. Unless a life ends early, bodies age, systems degrade, injuries accumulate, genetics express themselves, and cognition changes. This is not moral failure or personal deficiency. It is physics. Entropy at the level of lived […]
