Categories
cybernetics

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.

Categories
cybernetics

the good, the bad and the ugly of political communication

The ugly implication is that communicative success bears no necessary relationship to truth, intelligence, morality or long-term viability.

Categories
Philosophy

irony age

Every age reaches for old stories to explain new realities. The irony is that most stories survive not because (or even if) they are true, but because they are easy to transmit, to remember, to tell.