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Inside the Cognitive War

A cognitive war is not simply about what you think. It is a war over how you think, because once the structure, code, and cadence of thought, of language, of behaviour are altered, the content becomes easy to steer. Some of these biases are ancient, natural, even necessary: shortcuts of perception, habits of inferential prediction, […]

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Psychology

The Human Condition

Psychoanalysis begins with a joke that only works because it fails: the patient arrives burdened with paranoia, anxiety, and unhappiness, and the doctor replies that this is simply the human condition. (Cure denied.) The moment this is understood, the structure collapses. The consulting room becomes a mirror, not a remedy, and what it reflects is […]

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Human Wholeness

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Post date Aug 30, 2025
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When psychological insecurity and political desperation convene, they generate an entangled, self-gravitational field of caricature—where “the Other” becomes a constructed antipode whose very existence is required to validate the ideological self. These manufactured simplicities thrive on contrast, feeding off the projection of weakness, danger, or impurity, so that the fragile unity of the in-group appears […]

Alien Anthropology

It’s All a Bit Shit, Isn’t It?

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Post date Aug 6, 2025
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On Suffering, Communication, and the Institutionalisation of Despair Suffering isn’t anomalous; it’s transmissible. And crucially, it’s more transmissible than almost anything else. In the logic of communication systems, negativity spreads not because of some metaphysical malevolence but because of the dynamics of signal transmission itself. Fear, outrage, grief—they’re high-frequency, low-bandwidth. They slot neatly into channels […]

Philosophy

Fear

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Post date Mar 31, 2024
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The aesthetic liberation of the depiction of the impossible is found in representational systems such as languages and narratives, which are unified by their inability to represent anything beyond their own tautological interfaces. The entity that embodies horror most powerfully is not the tangible evils of the world, but rather the absence of unambiguous truth […]

Philosophy

Mortality

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Post date Aug 8, 2021
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It’s curious that the cognitive systems and languages through which we aspire to illustrate these existential intricacies of mortality are themselves so viscerally and intimately dependent upon teleological endpoints as anchors of meaning that when they attempt to embrace the meaningless vacuum and grand tautology at their core, they always fail. Is this failure of […]