A nation cannot be unified by dividing a people against themselves. The danger begins when that contradiction becomes a political method.
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populist capture: one nation
A society overwhelmed by complexity eventually stops seeking explanations and starts seeking certainty; that is when political movements such as One Nation cease to be anomalies and become warnings.
The future will not be defined by any single party or leader. It will be defined by the widening gap between the complexity of the systems governing society and the increasingly simplified narratives through which society attempts to understand them
There is, at present, a strange cultural requirement to pretend that billionaires are evidence of societal success rather than evidence of systemic imbalance.
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It is not about politics
Across many countries, the current wave of populism looks like a political shift. It is, but it is also something deeper: a change in how communication systems select and stabilise meaning.
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Suggestibility
…any system complex enough to interpret must remain vulnerable to the modulation of its own interpretive dynamics…
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