If you think politics is the solution to a world deeply problematised by entropic gradients of political turbulence, you’re either an idiot or you’re evil. Politics doesn’t solve problems, it feeds on them. It sustains itself by displacement — shuffling costs, hiding contradictions, weaponising blame. Nothing fundamental ever changes because the system isn’t built to […]
The institutions that claim to be the guardians of knowledge—universities, governments, large corporations—have all become deeply entangled in their own logic of continuity. Universities in particular once positioned themselves as sanctuaries for critical thought, but the reality today is closer to Stafford Beer’s observation in Platform for Change (1975): organizations tend not to innovate, they […]
Power is often framed as success: a visible sign of influence, wealth, and control. Yet what is celebrated locally as coherence—a leader’s authority, a nation’s strength, a company’s dominance—depends on incoherence at the global scale. For every gain of control, there is a widening asymmetry elsewhere. This is not accidental but structural: power sustains itself […]
Organizations routinely announce their commitment to transformation, innovation, and adaptability. They build glossy strategies, launch “future-focused” initiatives, and proclaim agility as their core value. Yet in practice, the opposite emerges: the institutions most loudly declaring innovation are often the most rigid. What blocks them is not lack of intelligence, talent, or resources—it is the stifling […]
The air is full of noise, but not much thought. Individually, people can be sharp, clever, kind. Put enough of us together and something else emerges: a soft median that drifts to the top like foam. Those who rise inside it are not the most intelligent, not the most insightful, but the ones who know […]
The machines are getting louder. They don’t think; they clank. People call it “intelligence” because the marketing is good, because the numbers are big, because nobody likes to be left out of the next gold rush. But clankers aren’t wise. They don’t know what they’re doing. They recombine, they predict, they imitate. Useful enough for […]
Big technology does not connect you—it consumes you. Its business model is not service but extraction. Every keystroke, every gesture, every delay in loading a page becomes a commodity. You are not the customer; you are the crop. The analogy of farming is no metaphor at all: platforms cultivate dependency as a field is tilled […]
We keep lying to ourselves about stability. The polite story is that systems aim for balance, that institutions exist to keep things steady, that culture and politics and technology are here to make life manageable. But none of that is quite true. Things don’t hold together because they are stable in any simple sense. They […]
From outside the United States, the Republican Party’s collapse into moral and intellectual bankruptcy is not just a domestic farce—it’s a global hazard. They’ve thrown their weight behind Donald Trump, a conman who turns every institution he touches into a casino of self-interest and spectacle. This isn’t leadership; it’s theatre for idiots, and the actors […]
The world’s on fire and everyone’s selling marshmallows. I’m sitting here, half in disbelief, half in deja vu, watching the carnival of catastrophe roll on like it’s just another Tuesday. People are making obscene amounts of money monetising distraction, denial, and dopamine, while whole populations are quietly erased beneath the algorithmic rug. It’s not just […]
American Presidency bought and sold by an oligarch, for an idiot, to a tyrant, for thirty pieces of silver.
Money is not the solution. It is the source of most of our problems. The worst thing about this strangely powerful abstraction of value and possession is that it seems as though inequitable outcomes are not only probable, they are positively mandatory in this complex system of systems that our world represents. For anything to […]
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