Everyone in the modern enterprise claims to want innovation, but few will risk what it requires. The fear of disturbance—of deviating from the delicate choreography of compliance and plausible deniability—has become the governing logic of management. Systems now reward those who maintain appearances, not those who learn. The result is a recursive theatre of progress: […]
The inversion of belonging is precisely what populism seizes upon. Those excluded or half-excluded find themselves drawn to rituals of collective affirmation, not because they generate agency but because they soothe the wound of distance. The gatherings, the chants, the slogans—all of these are not engines of causation but expressions of consequence, reverberations of deeper […]
Freedom is a word cheapened by misuse. It is invoked as if it were the license to insult, exclude, dominate, or wall oneself off from others while insisting that such enclosure is liberation. Yet what masquerades as independence becomes dependence on the harm and isolation of others, a brittle shell that requires continual reinforcement. This […]
Research shows that people are extraordinarily susceptible to suggestion, conformity, and manipulation. From classic social psychology experiments like Asch’s conformity trials or Milgram’s obedience studies, to contemporary evidence of mass persuasion through social media algorithms, it’s clear that human decision-making is easily steered. This is not an insult so much as an observable fact: cognition […]
Nationalism and anti-immigration movements recycle the same script: identify an external group, blame them for decline, and convert frustration into political capital. Yet the structural causes—corporate monopolies, rent-seeking industries, regulatory capture—remain largely unexamined. People misattribute the erosion of wages, housing affordability, and job security to migrants because scapegoating offers a simple, visceral answer where systemic […]
Concrete evidence that the West does not have a monopoly on gullible fools. The question is, or becomes, are citizens in democracies or in totalitarian regimes more prone to dissociative conspiratorial narratives? Intuition suggests that it may be the totalitarian states that generate more compliant idiots but the greater freedoms of the West leave people […]
Oh yes, mortgages are now a thing in the Metaverse. There is something really interesting here, from a speculative philosophical and psychotherapeutic perspective. Some people are quite willing and enthusiastic to jump on the bandwagon of perceived or projected value in and as virtual artefacts, entities and systems. This is plausibly because at a reflexive […]
As a general observation: notice the many ways that psychological and ideological belief systems adopted and asserted by any particular person or tribe need have no particular anchor in reality. All belief systems possess this essentially tautological interior architecture of interdependent symbolic relationships which can so easily be entirely dissociated from demonstrable facts. This is […]
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