Culture, Communication, Complexity.

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university system: status brokerage

Post author By G
Post date Jun 10, 2026
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Leadership changes amount to little more than a rearrangement of positions within a system whose underlying incentives remain substantially unchanged.

cybernetics

populist capture: one nation

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Post date Jun 10, 2026
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A society overwhelmed by complexity eventually stops seeking explanations and starts seeking certainty; that is when political movements such as One Nation cease to be anomalies and become warnings.

politics

big money, small ideas: power corrupts politics

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Post date Jun 10, 2026
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The future will not be defined by any single party or leader. It will be defined by the widening gap between the complexity of the systems governing society and the increasingly simplified narratives through which society attempts to understand them

Philosophy

Stultification Tsunami

The problem is not stupidity. Stupid ideas, taken individually, are manageable. They can be argued with, filtered, contextualised, ignored, or simply outgrown. Human cultures have always contained vast quantities of nonsense and survived quite well. That is not what is new. What is new is scale. A tsunami is not dangerous because each molecule of […]

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