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Institutional Event Horizon

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Post date Jan 30, 2026
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By the time you understand how academia actually works, you are already trapped inside it. That is the trick. Entry is sold as freedom of thought, critique, and discovery. What you encounter instead is a dense lattice of reputation management, contractual silence, risk avoidance, and procedural obedience. Say the wrong thing, name the wrong problem, […]

Philosophy

Strange Days

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Post date Jan 18, 2026
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What strikes me most about the current president of the United States is a strange inversion that would be almost comic if it were not so consequential. He shows little regard for the role he occupies, scant respect for the law, and no evident commitment to the country beyond what it can deliver to him […]

physics

Quantum Confusion: Institutional Inertia

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Post date Jan 8, 2026
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We are taught to treat quantum mechanics as intrinsically strange, opaque, almost hostile to intuition. The standard story is that reality itself is bizarre, and that only extreme mathematical sophistication grants partial access to it. Yet this framing quietly ignores another possibility: that many workable intuitions, partial models, and genuinely useful ways of thinking never […]

Tags academic censorship, applied philosophy, cognitive diversity, complexity theory, Epistemology, field logic, global instability, governance and knowledge, information ecology, innovation suppression, institutional failure, institutional inertia, intellectual monoculture, knowledge systems, systems thinking

cybernetics

Technological Gullibility

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Post date Dec 25, 2025
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We are repeatedly assured—quietly, implicitly—that technology is beneficial, inevitable, and continuous. Accepting this assurance has become a mark of sophistication, a moral alibi that aligns seamlessly—and not accidentally—with reverence for wealth and the wealthy. What enriches those at the top is treated as evidence of correctness. Profit becomes a proxy for proof. Wealth no longer […]

Tags abstraction and control, accountability and responsibility, capital and legitimacy, coherence as validation, coherence vs truth, correspondence theory, critical theory technology, cybersecurity philosophy, deferred cost, deferred harm, description vs experience, digital capitalism, epistemic authority, field logic, hyper-capitalism, hypercapitalism, identity systems, inequality as control, institutional inertia, meaning and coherence, momentum over outcomes, narratives of progress, profit as proof, progress myth, selective accounting, semantic coherence, social trust erosion, sociotechnical systems, surveillance capitalism, systemic risk, systems inertia, systems theory, techno-ideology, technological gullibility, technological inevitability myth, technology and power, technology critique, wealth and epistemic power, wealth and power