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politics

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Goodbye Pax Americana

Trump reads alliances as costs to cut, missing that they are the distributed, Global infrastructure and constitutive precondition through which American power exists and persists at all.

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Philosophy

Fragmentary Politics

Fragmentary politics is the largely unwitting doctrine of manufacturing and sustaining endless political and sociopsychological friction in order to self-validate. It generates adversarialism and conflict, then feeds on the consequences, mistaking turbulence for relevance and agitation for purpose. This is not strategy. It is structural incompetence: the conversion of social damage into political leverage, and […]