Technology keeps solving the problems technology creates, tightening our dependence on machinery whose cumulative costs keep growing and from which there is no longer any clean exit.
Tag: entropy
Conflict builds technology, technology reorganises conflict, and somewhere inside the loop every new problem becomes someone’s next investment opportunity.
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WTF
We keep telling the same stories in different ways. The faces, crises and characters change. The same tribal pattern keeps finding new forms.
The machinery does not need to fail. It only needs to keep working in ways that make more of itself necessary.
The present is not where possibility ends. It is where an immeasurably larger field of possible futures acquires one local history.
Technocratic complexity and populist caricature are parts of the same feedback loop. Each produces the conditions that sustain the other.
The probable is a proper subset of the possible. Old habits die hard because viable communication preferentially reproduces patterns that make themselves more likely to recur.
The technological system cannot perceive its full costs because that blindness is one of the conditions of its success.
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harmonic communication
Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.
Institutions rarely fail because they cannot recognise problems. They fail because recognising problems is not the same as escaping the conditions that reproduce them.
What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.
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unbalanced: political recursion
Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.
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