In Australia, many people learn quickly that speaking openly about mental health carries a reputational cost. The signal is subtle but persistent: disclose too much and you risk being quietly reclassified as unreliable, fragile, or difficult. The result is a perverse ethical loop in which silence is rewarded and honesty is penalised, even though that […]
Disability is not an edge case that happens to someone else. It is a statistical certainty built into biology and time. Unless a life ends early, bodies age, systems degrade, injuries accumulate, genetics express themselves, and cognition changes. This is not moral failure or personal deficiency. It is physics. Entropy at the level of lived […]
A healthy system rarely needs to shout. It grows complexity in silence, nourishes dissent without collapse, and tolerates ambiguity because it trusts its capacity to adapt. When systems become brittle, however, they begin to ossify around templates—rubrics of deterministic, historical certainty, slogans that substitute for creative or individual thought, and pageantry that masks—and all while […]
Daedelus Kite 