Even apparently useless phenomena usually have an implicit purpose or reason to exist. It just requires a little lateral thought to untangle the complexity a little…
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Bureaucracies and administrative hierarchies possess peculiarly mischievous methods of seeking sustainment and self-justification through the endless production of usefully wasteful products and services…
Complex emergent natural phenomena (of which human organisations are a logical sub-set) possess developmental biases towards evolutionary selection mechanisms favouring systemic continuity…
Organisational systems are as subject to the exigencies of thermodynamics as are any other material systems…
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Aperture, Pattern and Emptiness
Consider this unravelling vessel, this body…
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Continuity of Civilisation
There may be an irresolvable existential bottleneck between self-seeking commercial incentives and the long-term continuity of human civilisation.
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Open Minds and Closed Organisations
Human beings may never be clever enough to harness and benefit from the symmetries of information and energy flows as already exist in the natural world…
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Order and Decay
Entropy and disorder are inevitable, mismanagement of their consequences is not.
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S.O.S: Global Political Failures
No one is coming to save us from ourselves, it looks like we’ll need to work through this together…
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