While it is true that there is no such thing as a perfect political system, some forms of social organisation clearly possess greater resilience than others. This current epidemiological catastrophe is clear evidence of the implicit failures of authoritarian information control. https://twitter.com/howroute/status/1225480460979056642?s=09 The mechanical, austere logical function of authoritarian states generates deep fragility in their…
Democracy, unmasked…
…and this, this is the yawning abyss at the heart of Democracy; that is, it is a system so exquisitely poor at selecting individuals of sufficient aptitude, intelligence and enduring moral character to perform the roles into which they might find themselves unwittingly flung.
Climate Strike: Which Economy?
I observed a characteristically parochial performance from a politician on the morning news today. The topic of the Global Climate Strike was under analysis and the tired old excuses for workers and schoolchildren not attending the rallies and protests were wobbled around with rhetorical ineptitude. An argument was made for the importance of a strong…
Democracy and Authoritarianism are Strange Bedfellows
There is only one underlying logical information system - all ideologies are contingent interpretations that are biased towards selfish needs.
Neurosis
A neurosis is a problem-solving solution that has lived past it's use-by date and just keeps on keeping on.
Only Logic Wins Wars
Only the logic of technology wins war and war is indeed the one place that accelerated technological evolution is guaranteed. All of which leads us to a probable inevitability of conflict, written deeply into nature of information systems and logic.
There is no perfect social system
Just as there may never be any isolated closure and teleological endpoint to logic, physics and mathematics - there can also never be any such thing as the "one true way" or ideological and social perfection. There are only successive approximations and iterative algorithmic refinements towards a better world, without end.
On Facts, Truth and Public Narratives
You could be mistaken for believing that the primary public narratives and political engagements of our era are dominated by simpletons and misanthropes...
Disassembling Democracy
The actual rate of accelerating technological and organisational complexity has been outpacing administrative and hierarchical aptitude for some time.
Trumping conspiracy: On NOT Turning History into toilet paper…
A national Executive unfurling inarticulate and episodic errors of judgement and failures of intelligence like ragged, torn and soiled toilet paper across history's grand cartography...
The Clown Car of Consensus
Being correct on an issue is often tempered by the necessary clown-car and selection filter of consensus agreement...
Duplicity, Politics & Regulation
Don't assess a system by its mission statements so much as by its behaviour...
