Tag: Complexity

the value of nothing

The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.

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Philosophy

irony age

Post author By G
Post date Jun 29, 2026
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Every age reaches for old stories to explain new realities. The irony is that most stories survive not because (or even if) they are true, but because they are easy to transmit, to remember, to tell.

Tags イデオロギー, システム理論, ナラティブ, civilisation, civilización, civiltà, complejidad, complessità, complexité, Complexity, 系统理论, 複雑性, Geschichte, histoire, historia, history, idéologie, ideología, ideology, instituciones, Institutionen, institutions, istituzioni, Komplexität, Macht, Narrativ, narrativa, narrative, narrazione, poder, potere, pouvoir, power, récit, storia, systems theory, Systemtheorie, teoría de sistemas, teoria dei sistemi, théorie des systèmes, نظرية النظم, Zivilisation, 制度, 历史, 叙事, 复杂性, 意识形态, 文明, 权力, 権力, 歴史, المؤسسات, الأيديولوجيا, التاريخ, التعقيد, الحضارة, السلطة, السرد

money

wealth drag

Post author By G
Post date Jun 29, 2026
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Wealth is usually treated as evidence that society is working. But extreme accumulation may also reveal something stranger: a system increasingly organised around preserving wealth, whether or not that preservation still serves the world around it.

Philosophy

crackpot optics

Post author By G
Post date Jun 27, 2026
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Unpopular ideas are not always wrong. Sometimes they simply fail to flatter the machine.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, automation, Complexity, crackpot optics, Epistemology, esoteric knowledge, heterodox thinking, institutional conformity, intellectual margins, paradigm capture, Philosophy, symbolic economy, systems theory, technological culture, unpopular ideas

life

social distortion: disaffection

Post author By G
Post date Jun 26, 2026
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Disaffection is not giving up. It is what happens when you can no longer see yourself in the world that helped create you.

Tags alienation, belonging, Complexity, disaffection, field logic, identity, institutions, mental health, modern life, Philosophy, Psychology, social critique, social systems, society, systems

cybernetics

system dynamics: non-linearity

Post author By G
Post date Jun 26, 2026
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Non-linearity is rarely an explanation in itself. More often, it is a sign that causal structure is richer than our current description captures.

Tags causality, Complexity, emergence, Epistemology, feedback loops, hidden variables, modelling, non-linearity, system dynamics, systems thinking

cybernetics

Applied Field Logic: Climate Change

Post author By G
Post date Jun 25, 2026
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We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.

cybernetics

political role play

Modern political systems often reward symbolic fluency over systems literacy. The result is a governing class skilled at hierarchy, performance, and institutional ritual, but poorly equipped to understand the complex, recursive problems it claims to manage.

Tags Complexity, cybernetics, dodecahedron, egg, field logic, geometry, governance, institutional design, overconfidence, political failure, recursion, status hierarchy, structure, symbolic economy, systems

politics

adaptation: fixing aussie politics

Post author By G
Post date Jun 21, 2026
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There is no final closure. No permanent certainty. No government that fixes everything forever. There are only systems that adapt well and systems that adapt badly.