Analysis is always double-edged. To describe how a system functions is also to provide a how-to, a cookbook for replication. You don’t need to intend it. The moment you show how the parts connect, you’ve revealed the pattern, and anyone watching can use that knowledge to tighten the loop. This isn’t limited to ideology or […]
It is a mistake to imagine that cruelty or deception arise from the rare brilliance of tyrants or the careful engineering of conspirators. The truth is flatter, colder: given time, scale, and opportunity, suffering emerges almost as a default outcome, an entropic drift in human systems. Power does not require genius to become exploitative; it […]
American democracy was founded on lofty ideals of representation, balance of powers, and the rule of law, yet from the beginning it carried deep inequities. Slavery, the dispossession of Indigenous peoples, and the exclusion of women and the poor from genuine participation revealed that justice was never evenly shared. Tocqueville, writing in the 1830s, saw […]
American Presidency bought and sold by an oligarch, for an idiot, to a tyrant, for thirty pieces of silver.
When reduced to its essence, the simplicity of global conflict is as horrifying as it is absurd.
“I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round…” The 2024 US election is an interesting historical inflection point, quite clearly bordering on hysterical in some regards. The fuel of both political continuity and change is stochastic difference, not unity – a tough pill to swallow. A simple enough concept and yet rendered as almost […]
Humanity has, at scale and en masse, a profoundly insecure dependency on aggressive self-determination. This is the great unaddressed issue of our historical moment, perhaps of history more generally, and may indeed be an undecidable problem. We may not be able to unambiguously determine causal factors or clarify many of the things we really could […]
I dare say that wherever humanity does or does not find itself in regards to hyper-accelerating tech ological metamorphosis, this destination (or waypoint) will only ever be the most probable as manifest constellation of all possible artefacts, entities and systems in the world. I study holism. Ironically, you come to see it everywhere.
Assuring democratic continuity may be problematised by the presence of this particular political personality in ways that (perhaps necessarily) distract us from tackling underlying causal factors. If it wasn’t this problematic character, it would be someone else and regardless of how this situation plays out; what are the large-scale causal dynamics here? Is the demagogic […]
A conspicuous absence of totalising metanarrative is a necessary condition for the efflorescing reproduction of the countless contemporary insecurities and partisan adversarialisms that masquerade as epistemological (or ideological) certainty and individuated self-determination. The absence of this binding property itself then becomes the binding property. In this way, the impossibility of logical or electromechanical (as infallibly […]
That the incompetent actions of one person can spark a global conflagration is a matter of the utmost absurdity. This indicates a failure of the intellect so rampantly oblivious to consequences as to be rightly-called “remedial”. On a broader scale, just what does the historical record reveal about the catastrophic fate of autocratic systems that […]
In many ways, these complex tragedies self-replicate through the trauma they invoke. It’s something that is so characteristically human that we often don’t perceive it. The systems of psychology, culture and communication that we (all) inhabit are quite naturally and autonomously oriented towards their own recursive self-propagation. A primary method of this replication has historically […]
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