As the world approaches catastrophic conflict, wealth and power remain invested in preserving the arrangements driving instability. Asking for peace has become almost absurd, while preparing for destruction is considered perfectly sensible.
Tag: political power
We have spent billions of years becoming what we are, yet our political and economic systems increasingly reward the destruction of the complex relationships that sustain us. What we stand to lose is beyond calculation, and the tragedy is how unnecessary so much of it is.
A civilisation that turns its moral deterioration into public spectacle reorganises the relationships through which political power is recognised, contested and reproduced, making cruelty both a symptom of its decline and a means of perpetuating it.
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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Surveillance Capitalism
Surveillance capitalism claims to see outward, yet its deepest capture is inward. Any system that grounds authority in exhaustive data collection must internalise its own apparatus. The observer becomes the most observed entity in the field. As capture intensifies, freedom contracts. Control architectures require constant calibration and escalation, growing brittle, paranoid, and self-consuming. Power built […]
