Categories
Philosophy

bureaucratic entropy

The system’s entropy offset becomes the labour imposed on those required to submit to its assumptions in order to reproduce its organisational structure through time.

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cybernetics

corruption

Corruption begins when reward outpaces responsibility, reflecting the tendency of complex communication systems to abbreviate consequence and concentrate advantage.

Categories
cybernetics

time is the finite propagation of relation

Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.

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Philosophy

the value of nothing

The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.

Categories
Philosophy

irony age

Every age reaches for old stories to explain new realities. The irony is that most stories survive not because (or even if) they are true, but because they are easy to transmit, to remember, to tell.

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money

wealth drag

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.

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Science

the conspicuous absence in science

Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.