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Philosophy

The Business of Political Insecurity

Political insecurity mirrors the dynamics of cybersecurity in that the act of securing does not eliminate risk but displaces it into new configurations. In digital systems, firewalls, encryption, and patches reduce certain vulnerabilities but simultaneously generate others, leaving end-users and clients to absorb the cost of residual exposure (Anderson, 2020). Politics demonstrates the same recursive […]

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belief

Friction

Belief systems—political, spiritual, cultural—are not merely catalogues of doctrine or symbolic taxonomies but function as frictional zones where indeterminate claims meet, clash, and persist. The turbulence generated by unprovable assertions—whether about metaphysical truth, national destiny, or social justice—creates a binding tension. This tension provides the continuity through which institutions, rituals, and governance structures stabilize themselves, […]

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Science

Climate Change: Time is Running Out

This is how it starts: the heatwaves, the droughts, the fires, the extreme weather…

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culture

Brute-Forcing Truth…

Where successfully arguing a point becomes more important than being correct, it doesn’t really matter when you really are correct…