The feed keeps trying to teach me that power is something you copy from people who already have too much of it. The platform pushes one rhythm: admire wealth, follow dominance, narrow yourself until you match the beat it rewards. But nothing alive survives by doing that. Identity only holds together when it keeps a […]
Extreme wealth is not just a larger version of ordinary success. Beyond a certain point, it becomes a structural feature of the systems that organise society itself. Modern civilisation runs on coordination: finance, law, technology, logistics, media, administration. These systems manage complexity by translating the world into symbols — money, data, metrics, legal categories. They […]
Civilisation was never meant to run on panic, yet that is the rhythm we’ve drifted into. The public story insists we are building a future, but the machinery underneath tells a different tale — one of shortening time-horizons, defensive accumulation, and a cultural field tuned to performance rather than survival. The great systems of finance, […]
It’s around the moment you realise that a corporate-ideological consolidation was never really necessary—that the mechanisms of money and power had already stabilised into self-sustaining forms—that the futility of it all becomes clear. The system was already running itself. Pushing further doesn’t strengthen it; it just shifts who gets to sit closer to the centre. […]
In every century, a new medium discovers how easily it can puppet the collective mind. The printing press made possible both Luther’s Reformation and the Thirty Years’ War; the telegraph and newspaper incubated nationalism; radio begot the theater of fascism; television normalized consumption as faith—and vice versa. Each era mistakes its medium for enlightenment until […]
Artificial intelligence will destroy us all only, or at least primarily, to the degree that human greed uses it as an amplifier. The destruction isn’t coming—it’s already underway.
Entropy is not just a principle of physics—it’s a principle of communication. Information systems, whether political, cultural, or technological, don’t move toward clarity; they move toward noise. In American politics, the spectacle of Trump is less about the man than about the logic of replication. Outrage travels faster than nuance, and so outrage becomes the […]
Pyrrhic Victory (n.) Applied sense:To turn one’s own country into a bonfire for profit — extracting wealth by consuming the social, cultural, and material fabric that sustains it — such that the source of value itself is extinguished. The “victory” lies only in the counting of money that can no longer circulate within the ruins […]
Wars without end, from Iraq to Ukraine, consume generations while manufacturing weapons and enemies in equal measure. Economies strip forests, poison rivers, and churn out disposable goods, all in the name of growth that hollows out the future. Technologies arrive draped in the promise of connection yet leave populations isolated, profiled, and monetised; social media […]
Tyranny is not strength but stupidity disguised as power. It thrives on the illusion of permanence, convincing itself that the bubble it inhabits will not burst. Yet every empire, every system of control, has dissolved into dust. The tyrant clings to the fiction that what they know and what they are will matter forever, but […]
Belief systems—political, spiritual, cultural—are not merely catalogues of doctrine or symbolic taxonomies but function as frictional zones where indeterminate claims meet, clash, and persist. The turbulence generated by unprovable assertions—whether about metaphysical truth, national destiny, or social justice—creates a binding tension. This tension provides the continuity through which institutions, rituals, and governance structures stabilize themselves, […]
The refrain once urged us to expand: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Its inversion is now the survival mechanism: Tune out, turn off, drop in. Digital platforms have mastered the art of capture. They are not designed to serve us but to extract attention, time, and revenue from us. The architecture is parasitic—every click […]
Daedelus Kite 