Tag: cultural critique

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Philosophy

Atlas, Debugged

I no longer believe the world can be healed by better arguments, smarter policies, cleaner data, or more sophisticated machines. These things mostly just turn the volume up on whatever is already broken. The deeper condition is non-closure: the simple fact that complex systems do not stabilise by resolving tension, but by holding it in […]

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Psychology

The Human Condition

Psychoanalysis begins with a joke that only works because it fails: the patient arrives burdened with paranoia, anxiety, and unhappiness, and the doctor replies that this is simply the human condition. (Cure denied.) The moment this is understood, the structure collapses. The consulting room becomes a mirror, not a remedy, and what it reflects is […]

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Philosophy

Fragmentary Politics

Fragmentary politics is the largely unwitting doctrine of manufacturing and sustaining endless political and sociopsychological friction in order to self-validate. It generates adversarialism and conflict, then feeds on the consequences, mistaking turbulence for relevance and agitation for purpose. This is not strategy. It is structural incompetence: the conversion of social damage into political leverage, and […]

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Philosophy

Structural Insecurity Precedes Moral Failure

Racism, misogyny, and other forms of exclusion recur not because they are compelling, justified, or desirable, but because large-scale social systems are biased toward generating them, or things like them, under stress. Calling this structural does not mean denying choice. People do make choices, good, bad, and ugly, and they live with the consequences of […]

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culture

Pop-Punk Perspectives: Green Day’s American Idiot

Green Day released American Idiot in 2004, a punk rock anthem that crystallized the frustration of a generation living through the Bush administration, the Iraq War, and the saturation of 24-hour news. It railed against conformity, fear-driven politics, and the sense that public discourse was being flattened into soundbites. The track spearheaded the concept album […]

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cybernetics

Technology is the Problem

The refrain once urged us to expand: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Its inversion is now the survival mechanism: Tune out, turn off, drop in. Digital platforms have mastered the art of capture. They are not designed to serve us but to extract attention, time, and revenue from us. The architecture is parasitic—every click […]

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Alien Anthropology

Presidential Shit Show

Possibly the least comforting fact in regards to the Oval Office being two sandwiches and a sledge hammer away from becoming the Presidential rage room, is that a wide disaffection and alienated sense of abandonment that has in some measure led to this catastrophic shit show, it’s not entirely wrong. Ah, now there’s a problem: […]

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culture

Disentangling Doctor Who

Spoilers: Doctor Who unwittingly generates all of the anomalies and enigmas he appears to stumble across…