News24 shows how communication systems turn insecurity, identity and antagonism into recurrent political influence.
Tag: identity
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Persistence of Reality
Reality persists because nothing (and only nothing!) ever fully coincides with itself.
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WTF
We keep telling the same stories in different ways. The faces, crises and characters change. The same tribal pattern keeps finding new forms.
A home is not simply somewhere a person lives. It is somewhere from which a life can continue.
Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
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pity the children
A healthy society expects children to become adults. An unhealthy one encourages adults to remain immature.
Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.
Language does not merely describe civilisation. It quietly engineers the conditions of its own persistence through us.
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why destructive identities take hold
Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.
The self depends on a membrane of belief separating “me” from the world, though almost everything constructing that “me” comes from elsewhere.
Psychological maturity does not replace immaturity. It incorporates it, organises it, and learns how to live through it.
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consciousness and the human world
Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
Daedelus Kite 