Culture, Communication, Complexity.

Tag: cultural pathology

The Gospel of Greed

There is a grim existential irony in how those most convinced of possessing an absolute moral truth, acting within a field shaped by fear, reflex, and desire, come to cultivate greed, cruelty, and exclusion in the name of that certainty, mistaking the felt coherence of dominance for righteousness, and remaining largely unaware that what they […]

Tags authoritarian psychology, christian nationalism, cultural pathology, entropy and control, ethical collapse, faith and power, field logic, ideology and fear, ideology critique, moral certainty, moral inversion, moral psychology, political theology, power and belief, religion and politics, religious nationalism, sacred violence, systems theory, trumpism

Philosophy

Absurd Superficiality

The absurdity of the social media game is structural, not moral. Everyone is incentivised to speak, assert experience, belief, or fact, yet attention is allocated to whatever compresses fastest. To be heard, meaning is thinned, context stripped, time and place over-determined into slogans. Throughput beats processing. What looks like participation is actually a selection regime […]

Tags algorithmic amplification, attention economy, cognitive compression, communication systems, Complexity, cultural pathology, digital culture, epistemic collapse, field logic, information overload, media critique, sense making, social media, systems theory