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communication

Arguing a Point: the Cost of Partisan Differential

Contemporary political partisanship is commonly perceived as noise, conflict, or moral failure, rather than as a structural dynamic. Within that same environment, some actors benefit from it because the system rewards the conversion of difference into attention, status, or power, creating incentives for intensification. Structurally, partisanship functions less as a disagreement to be resolved than […]

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politics

One Nation, Australia: Contagion Dynamics

When the ambient communication system is saturated with noise, speed, and compression, ideologies that minimise internal degrees of freedom propagate more easily, not because they are robust but because they repeat cleanly. They return in recognisable form, align with their own prior expressions, and therefore hold attention. Under these conditions, order is produced less by […]

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politics

Antithesis Trap

Identity formation requires antithesis. In the United States, political coherence has long been organised around opposition: liberty against tyranny, democracy against monarchy, capitalism against communism, freedom against control. These oppositions carved boundaries that stabilised national identity, generated purpose, and coordinated collective action. Opposition was not incidental. It was structural. Without it, American identity would have […]

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politics

Australian Democracy: One Country, Many Ways

Australia works because it stays balanced. Its democracy is not built on simple agreement, but on the disciplined interaction between different ways of seeing the world. Labor and Liberal are not just rival teams. Together, they form the smallest political structure capable of holding a complex society together. Two sides generate debate, correction, and restraint. […]

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cybernetics

Why an Autocratic Turn is Catastrophic

An autocratic turn accelerates self-destructive collapse not because it is immoral, but because it forces a distributed system into a shape it cannot sustain. Short-term unity is purchased by suppressing variation, and the centre begins to confuse resistance with disobedience rather than information about system limits. Feedback from courts, states, agencies, markets, and elections is […]

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cybernetics

After

If the United States survives their current political apoplexy, there is a genuine possibility of reconstruction, but only because damage exposes the relationships that mattered and brings hidden dependencies into the open, revealing how the system was actually held together. The damage being inflicted is real and severe, economic and political at once. Disruption to […]

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Philosophy

[05] Disinformation Dynamics: Implementation and Resilience

5.1 The Principle of Reflexive Governance Governance within a recursive communication field cannot rely on static regulation. It must function as reflexive control—a governance system that perceives and adjusts its own influence in real time.Each intervention becomes a feedback signal: the regulator is part of the system, not external to it.This principle ensures adaptability without […]

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Philosophy

Autocracy is Addicted to Fear

We all know that the mobster kleptocracy has been catastrophically miscalculating at least in part due to a narrative dependency of getting high on its own supply of disinformation but in the monumental strategic blunder that this invasion represents they display the kernel core of a neurotic psychological pathology. An implicit orientation towards the positive […]