When ignorance becomes politically powerful, socially respectable and commercially profitable, independent thought becomes a liability.
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The paradox is that philosophy, a discipline nominally concerned with questioning assumptions, has become remarkably accomplished at preserving its own.
I went to a School of Cybernetics hoping to develop ideas about how systems organise and reproduce themselves. My experience instead prompted an unexpected examination of institutional authority, intellectual exclusion and the patterns through which institutions reproduce themselves.
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The Precarity of Thinking
Ideas are fragile, and their expression more so. In a culture increasingly synchronised by fear, hatred and repetition, independent thought becomes an act of integrity, and the freedom to communicate something genuinely different becomes increasingly precious.
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epistemic pyramid scheme
This is how a system built to produce knowledge becomes a system for reproducing the conditions under which its existing knowledge remains authoritative.
