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Peace

Love over Gold

Love over gold: the principle that human connection and community should take precedence over wealth, profit, or material advantage.

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technology

Divided

Technologically mediated communication intensifies what language has always done: it isolates, divides, and distances us from one another, and from ourselves, as a necessary precondition for meaningful communicative experience to arise at all. Given the nature of the world, I carry a quiet regret at not having known more people more fully, even while understanding […]

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cybernetics

Complex Power Dynamics

Power’s paradox is that it flourishes best where it cannot fully dominate. Like the tensile balance of a body held together by structured tension, it requires counterforces, resistance, and the ever-present possibility of dissolution to sustain itself. Autocracy and capital alike reveal this pattern: their most efficient mode of operation is not in a vacuum […]