Culture, Communication, Complexity.

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AI isn’t coming to save us

AI can not save us, but it will facilitate a vast amount of short-term profit. The actual human and environmental cost will be considerable.

Tags AI, Artificial Intelligence, automation, cultural systems, distributed consequences, elites, executive class, governance, inequality, institutional failure, organisational complexity, power, short-term profit, social systems, system dynamics, technological disruption

cybernetics

political economy: the enemy in the mirror

Post author By G
Post date Aug 1, 2026
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Much of what capitalism conditions us to fear in communism is what concentrated capitalism already does: centralise power, narrow freedom, restrict opportunity and preserve poverty as structural necessity.

cybernetics

how capitalism reconstructs scarcity

Post author By G
Post date Jul 30, 2026
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The institutions assigned to solve our deepest problems are sustained by these, the very relations they are unable and/or unwilling to question.

Tags akses diferensial, authoritarianism, awtoritaryanismo, अधिनायकवाद, असमानता, कॉर्पोरेट शक्ति, जटिल प्रणालियाँ, जटिलता, तकनीकतंत्र, नियंत्रण प्रणाली, पूंजीवाद, प्रतिपुष्टि, राजनीतिक अर्थव्यवस्था, संचार, संस्थागत अंध बिंदु, साइबरनेटिक्स, सामाजिक प्रणालियाँ, सामूहिक व्यवहार, सिस्टम सिद्धांत, सिस्टम सोच, berpikir sistem, capitalism, collective behaviour, communication, complex systems, Complexity, control systems, corporate power, cybernetics, differential access, ekonomi politik, ekonomiyang pampulitika, feedback, hindi pagkakapantay-pantay, inequality, institutional blind spots, kapangyarihang korporasyon, kapitalisme, kapitalismo, kekuasaan korporasi, ketimpangan, kolektibong pag-uugali, kompleksitas, komplikadong sistema, komplikasidad, komunikasi, komunikasyon, mga bulag na punto ng institusyon, mga sistemang pangkontrol, mga sistemang panlipunan, otoritarianisme, pag-iisip na sistemiko, perilaku kolektif, political economy, sibernetika, sistem kendali, sistem kompleks, sistem sosial, social systems, systems theory, systems thinking, technocracy, teknokrasi, teknokrasya, teori sistem, teorya ng sistema, titik buta institusional, umpan balik

cybernetics

capitalism’s contradictions: why unequal access keeps the system working

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Post date Jul 30, 2026
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Capitalism does not distribute abundance. It sustains value by distributing differential (as inequitable) access.

Tags capitalism, Complexity, control systems, cybernetics, delay, differential access, differential timing, feedback, housing, inequality, markets, ownership, political economy, scarcity, social systems, systems theory

systems

Australia’s housing affordability crisis and its central contradiction

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Post date Jul 30, 2026
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A system cannot sustainably maximise accessibility and scarcity at the same time.

Tags complex systems, systems thinking, inequality, political economy, social systems, public policy, housing affordability, structural contradiction, property market, Australian housing crisis, housing policy, home ownership, rental crisis

Philosophy

the machinery of greed is consuming the future

Post author By G
Post date Jul 29, 2026
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A civilisation organised around limitless acquisition on a finite planet turns systemic collapse into a KPI.

Tags authoritarianism, capitalism, civilisational collapse, editorial illustration, environmental collapse, exploitation, extractive economics, greed, inequality, political cartoon, profit, systems theory, technology and society, the future, tyranny

money

wealth drag

Post author By G
Post date Jun 29, 2026
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Wealth is usually treated as evidence that society is working. But extreme accumulation may also reveal something stranger: a system increasingly organised around preserving wealth, whether or not that preservation still serves the world around it.

Philosophy

billionaire welfare

Extreme wealth is not proof of independence. The billionaire appears to stand above society, but in reality stands upon it.

Tags #wealth, aide sociale aux milliardaires, économie politique, öffentliche Subventionen, bienestar para multimillonarios, billionaire welfare, billionaires, capitalism, capitalisme, capitalismo, civilisation, civilización, 社会依赖, 经济体系, dépendance sociale, dependencia social, desigualdad, economía política, economic systems, 财富, 资本主义, gesellschaftliche Abhängigkeit, inégalités, inequality, Kapitalismus, milliardaires, Milliardäre, multimillonarios, political economy, politische Ökonomie, public subsidy, richesse, riqueza, sistemas económicos, social dependency, Sozialhilfe für Milliardäre, subsidio público, subvention publique, systèmes économiques, Ungleichheit, Wirtschaftssysteme, Wohlstand, Zivilisation, 公共补贴, 政治经济学, 文明, 不平等, 亿万富翁, 亿万富翁福利

Philosophy

disability support

Disability support is not charity. It is what a society builds when it understands that vulnerability belongs to everyone.

money

cold comfort for change

The problem is that we built a housing system increasingly organised around speculation and then act surprised when some of its casualties become impossible to ignore.

Tags Australia, economy, failure, homelessness, housing affordability, housing crisis, indifference, inequality, poverty, property market, public housing, rental stress, social housing, speculation, winter

Philosophy

trillionaire

Post author By G
Post date Jun 13, 2026
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Civilisation was not built to worship wealth, but it has been redesigned to serve it.

Tags #wealth, administrative scaffolding, billionaire class, billionaire worship, civilisation, cultural decay, elon musk, inequality, late capitalism, moral grotesque, obscene wealth, oligarchy, plutocracy, political economy, power, social critique, systems critique, techno-feudalism, wealth concentration

Philosophy

caravan of confusion

Power does not erase wisdom’s serial warnings about the corruption and cruelty that often accompanies extreme wealth; it orchestrates and sustains an institutional matrix to demonstrate why the warning applies to someone else.