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cybernetics

civilisational continuity, conflict and global disorder

Civilisations persist by continually reorganising themselves. The unanswered question is whether conflict, crisis and systemic collapse/renewal remain the principal means through which that persistence is achieved.

Categories
cybernetics

the same problem

The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.

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Philosophy

It was about that point that I realised…

Strategic insight is often ignored not because it lacks value, but because systems prefer analysis that confirms their existing assumptions.