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communication

Vapid Rationale: Amateur’s Night on the Global Stage

What we call strategy in world events is almost never that. Significant historical events are routinely narrated as the product of careful planning, institutional continuity, and deliberate intent, yet the public record more reliably shows decisions taken under pressure, justified after the fact, and sustained long after anyone can clearly explain why they began. Narratives […]

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cybernetics

Technocratic Tyrrany

We use technologies that also use us. Over time, methods are formalised into metrics, metrics are stabilised into categories of meaning, and tools designed to assist begin to define which actions are recognised as valid. What once supported activity becomes background infrastructure. The tools move to the centre. Human experience no longer anchors them; it […]