Power is often framed as success: a visible sign of influence, wealth, and control. Yet what is celebrated locally as coherence—a leader’s authority, a nation’s strength, a company’s dominance—depends on incoherence at the global scale. For every gain of control, there is a widening asymmetry elsewhere. This is not accidental but structural: power sustains itself […]
We keep lying to ourselves about stability. The polite story is that systems aim for balance, that institutions exist to keep things steady, that culture and politics and technology are here to make life manageable. But none of that is quite true. Things don’t hold together because they are stable in any simple sense. They […]
Autocracy, in its formal sense, consolidates power into a singular locus: a ruler, a regime, a party. Legally and politically, it bypasses checks and balances, suppresses dissent, narrows the bandwidth of permissible expression. Sociologically, it restructures public life around vertical loyalty, replacing distributed agency with enforced coherence. Yet beyond the formal mechanisms of control—censorship, surveillance, […]
American Presidency bought and sold by an oligarch, for an idiot, to a tyrant, for thirty pieces of silver.
In thermodynamics, entropy is a measure of the disorder of a system. The natural bias of any ordered system system will always be to move towards equilibrium, where entropy is at a minimum. This is because a system will dissipate energy in order to become more ordered. In a complex system, entropy is necessary to […]
The greatest irony of every instance of civilisation collapse has probably never been that it comes without warning or time to avert impending catastrophe, as even then when disaster looms it is never entirely unexpected or unforeseen by those bearing sufficient intellect to observe its impending arrival. It is much more likely that we will […]
All of this pandemic panic, emotional disassembly and socioeconomic dissolution; how much more evidence do we need? Not so much for the corruption of this or that ideology or political ideal, but for the utter corruption and intellectual poverty of all ideological and political positions, assertions and beliefs? Reflexively attaching ourselves to whichever form of […]
Having successfully equipped myself with precisely the wrong set of mental tools and concepts to survive in this particular hyper-commercial and aggressively competitive world…
Daedelus Kite 