05-DD
Tag: cybernetics
06-DD
Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
Civilisations persist by continually reorganising themselves. The unanswered question is whether conflict, crisis and systemic collapse/renewal remain the principal means through which that persistence is achieved.
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pity the children
A healthy society expects children to become adults. An unhealthy one encourages adults to remain immature.
The technological system cannot perceive its full costs because that blindness is one of the conditions of its success.
We are passing a turning point at which the value of human cleverness becomes actively obscured and wilfully excluded by technocratic over-reach.
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harmonic communication
Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.
Institutions rarely fail because they cannot recognise problems. They fail because recognising problems is not the same as escaping the conditions that reproduce them.
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the same problem
The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.
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how capitalism reconstructs scarcity
The institutions assigned to solve our deepest problems are sustained by these, the very relations they are unable and/or unwilling to question.
Capitalism does not distribute abundance. It sustains value by distributing differential (as inequitable) access.
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