Freedom is a word cheapened by misuse. It is invoked as if it were the license to insult, exclude, dominate, or wall oneself off from others while insisting that such enclosure is liberation. Yet what masquerades as independence becomes dependence on the harm and isolation of others, a brittle shell that requires continual reinforcement. This […]
Institutions are adept at naming their own failures but structurally incapable of addressing them. The bureaucratic cycle rewards discussion, reports, committees, and procedures that extend problems rather than resolve them. What gets called “management” is often the art of sustaining a tolerable stalemate, a perpetual negotiation that keeps the machinery alive without meaningfully engaging the […]
Sometimes, when people look at me and speak, I don’t hear the words—I see the mouth moving and hear the noise, nothing more. It feels like those moments when a familiar word suddenly turns strange, hollowed of meaning, its surface exposed. I think this happens to all of us: every so often, language reveals itself […]
Analysis is always double-edged. To describe how a system functions is also to provide a how-to, a cookbook for replication. You don’t need to intend it. The moment you show how the parts connect, you’ve revealed the pattern, and anyone watching can use that knowledge to tighten the loop. This isn’t limited to ideology or […]
Belief systems—political, spiritual, cultural—do not cohere because they achieve certainty. They cohere because they cannot. The very fact that their claims are indeterminate and unprovable generates the turbulence that binds them together. What looks like a contest over truth is, in effect, the medium of systemic persistence. Institutions, rituals, and governing frameworks stabilise themselves by […]
The triumph of greed is not simply a matter of moral collapse but the sad, sick flowers of history, a dark blossoming in which the most heinous acts of selfish, self-determining political and corporate identity serve as an optimal transmission medium for forces and flows that precede us, exceed us, and remain beyond our ken […]
It is as fascinating as it is tragic. We may do well to question the eternal recurrence of unhinged banality and myopic jingoism as there are causal mechanisms in play. It is only incidentally about personalities: probability, entropy and adaptive statistical factors occupy the center of gravity. What percolates to ascendance tends to be those […]
The more I learn, the more I study, the more I come to understand, the more it seems that everything is, at its core, completely random—and perhaps necessarily so. In that randomness lies a kind of essential meaninglessness, or rather, a meaning that emerges only as the inverse echo of its own absence, enigmatic and […]
Language does more than describe the world; it frames it, orients it, and quietly sets the limits of what seems possible. Those who wield it most fluently are often the least aware of how it traps them. Narratives reproduce themselves not because they uncover truth but because they preserve position, and self-interest thrives on the […]
To understand ourselves as primarily here to produce waste is to face the unsettling fact that our bodies and systems are throughput machines. What we consume is less important than the transformation that occurs in the middle, where emergent rules of metabolism, language, and culture operate. Output is not accidental but constitutive: waste is not […]
Any sufficiently sophisticated analysis of language, technology, and or communication eventually arrives at a point in which human behavioural, psychological and/or political experience is really only rationally explicable as noise, and it’s simply the noise that self-propagates most effectively that acquires and sustains meaning.
Meaning is best described as invariance under transformation: the signal that endures even as its form shifts. Yet this very invariance is what generates transformation, because to stabilize one contour of order requires displacement elsewhere. A political system illustrates this clearly: pathways of alignment and consensus are only drawn by dissolving or fragmenting other possibilities. […]
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