Culture, Communication, Complexity.

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power

the strange ontology of power

Post author By G
Post date Jul 19, 2026
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Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.

cybernetics

corruption

Post author By G
Post date Jul 9, 2026
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Corruption begins when reward outpaces responsibility, reflecting the tendency of complex communication systems to abbreviate consequence and concentrate advantage.

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Philosophy

independence day

Post author By G
Post date Jul 4, 2026
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Freedom is easy to celebrate in theory and much harder to preserve in practice.

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Philosophy

stasis, stasi, status, state

Post author By G
Post date Jul 4, 2026
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A country does not collapse when it disagrees; it collapses when disagreement becomes the structure that holds it together.

cybernetics

finger-painting australia into an ideological corner: populism

Post author By G
Post date Jun 23, 2026
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Just my perspective.
Your mileage may vary.

Tags Australia, Australie, Australien, オーストラリア, ガバナンス, システム思考, ポピュリズム, ワンネーション, démocratie, democracia, democracy, democrazia, Demokratie, Fremdenfeindlichkeit, gobernanza, gouvernance, governance, grievance politics, instituciones, Institutionen, institutions, istituzioni, One Nation, pensamiento sistémico, pensée systémique, pensiero sistemico, política del agravio, politica del risentimento, political simplification, Politik der Ressentiments, politique du ressentiment, politische Vereinfachung, populism, populisme, populismo, Populismus, Regierungsführung, semplificazione politica, simplificación política, simplification politique, Systemdenken, systems thinking, xénophobie, xenofobia, xenophobia, 制度, 外国人嫌悪, 政治的単純化, 民主主義, 不満の政治

politics

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.

politics

political speed-dating down under: the golden bulldozer

Post author By G
Post date Jun 20, 2026
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Australia’s political speed-dating with One Nation suggests that what has happened in the USA is not an exception, it is a franchised political method.