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Alien Anthropology

Wicked Games

Rich people shitting on poor people isn’t news. That’s history. That’s the shape of it. Empires, estates, banks, data farms—it’s all the same system, just re-encoded. The mechanisms change—feudalism becomes finance, whips become wage contracts, enclosure becomes copyright—but the structure doesn’t. Power aggregates. Wealth consolidates. And the people underneath are expected to be grateful for […]

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Philosophy

Replicating Narrative Uncertainty

𝙄𝙣 𝙖 𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. A key takeaway is that while the replication of systems of cultural narrative are the center of gravity, truth itself is (or becomes) incidental to the main game of communications system self-replication. Institutional “doom scrolling” is a generative method by […]