At every level of power and influence—government, corporate, institutional, cultural—the refusal to admit problems has become the defining problem. The failures are obvious—collapsing ecosystems, hollowed economies, dysfunctional politics—yet they are wrapped in layers of language and ritual designed to deny them. The performance of belief and positivity masks breakdown until the mask itself becomes indistinguishable […]
What we call government, institutions, or corporate leadership has collapsed into a single field of self-preservation, each part feeding and depending on the other until the distinctions blur. The machinery runs, not because it is working, but because nobody within it can stop. Failure is obvious, yet denial is structural—built into the protocols, the language, […]
When science encounters the unexplained it tends only to see reflected back those concepts that self-validate the assumptions by (and through) which this well-ordered system of knowledge persists. The absence of unambiguous evidence is also the kind of thing we might expect when encountering any intelligence that is seeking for whatever reasons to obscure its […]
The concept of cascading complexity in matters of Global Existential Threat is quite substantially and far beyond any contemporary regulatory aptitude or ideology and party-agnostic political will to engage it with requisite urgency and at required scale. It is simultaneously not at all political and yet suffers from an endless adversarial bickering as the articulation […]
Context: ‘God intended it as a disposable planet’: meet the US pastor preaching climate change denial Notice how the frame of reference represented by this (or for that matter – any) belief system is so easily detached from the reality and unassailable facts upon which it actually and constitutively depends for sustainable continuity and existence. Systems […]
Nothing kills pain like the opium of blind faith. It is easier to gaze upon death without eyes. What better way to engage with the horrifying fact and material inevitability of your own non-existence than by denying it exists?
Daedelus Kite 