Culture, Communication, Complexity.

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The Strange Gravity of Compassion

Post author By G
Post date Feb 3, 2026
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The Dalai Lama’s audiobook, recently recognised with a Grammy, is not framed as a political intervention. It is a work of reflection, oriented toward compassion, ethical responsibility, and the cultivation of inner steadiness. Yet the figure of the Dalai Lama does not circulate in a neutral field. His public presence remains entangled with a long […]

Tags attention and meaning, belief systems and power, China Tibet relations, compassion and politics, complexity and governance, cultural recognition, Dalai Lama, empathy and society, entertainment industry and politics, feedback loops in politics, geopolitics and culture, global political narratives, identity and opposition, political symbolism, psychocultural analysis, sociopolitical dynamics, soft power dynamics, systems philosophy, US cultural climate

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Alignment

Post author By G
Post date Jan 15, 2026
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It has probably always been the case that seeking respite from the endless surge of unhinged political stupidity feels futile, exasperating, and frightening. Watching poorly understood belief systems grind on, reproducing themselves through humanity as distributed patterns of alignment within the communicative field rather than arising from deliberate, individual choice, is unsettling. The fear comes […]

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