Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?
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what holds a society together?
Tag: democracy
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the trouble with monoculture
Culture survives because it changes. A culture that cannot change is not being preserved. It is being embalmed.
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stasis, stasi, status, state
A country does not collapse when it disagrees; it collapses when disagreement becomes the structure that holds it together.
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aussie media fail
Theirs is a role play of analysis, simply and unwittingly giftwrapping populist-adjacent themes for broad public consumption; little on insight, big on performative role play.
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adaptation: fixing aussie politics
There is no final closure. No permanent certainty. No government that fixes everything forever. There are only systems that adapt well and systems that adapt badly.
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better politics
The task is not to create perfect agreement, but to maintain enough shared coherence that a society can continue solving problems without tearing itself apart.
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australia, please…
Populists tell you they’re going to smash the system for your benefit. Funny how it still always seems to end with the rich getting richer, the government getting worse, and everyone else paying for the repairs.
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one notion politics
Populism turns complex national problems into kindergarten theatre, then sells the applause as policy.
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political theatre
One Nation raised millions for political theatre while a Queensland hospice had to beg for palliative care funding. This is clearly ridiculous but is also hardly an isolated incident of misplaced priorities and dodgy reasoning in sociopolitical systems.
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peace, pieces, holism
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the difficult art of sustaining difference without collapse.
As frustration with conventional politics grows, Australia is turning towards alternatives whose appeal rests less on their capacity to solve complex problems than on their ability to give that frustration a political voice.
Malakacene: the long historical moment in which technologically mediated societies stopped selecting primarily for competence, wisdom, restraint, and institutional responsibility, and instead became increasingly vulnerable to the rapid propagation of spectacle, grievance, aggression, narcissism, and performative certainty masquerading as leadership.
