Tag: political psychology

Inside the Cognitive War

A cognitive war is not simply about what you think. It is a war over how you think, because once the structure, code, and cadence of thought, of language, of behaviour are altered, the content becomes easy to steer. Some of these biases are ancient, natural, even necessary: shortcuts of perception, habits of inferential prediction, […]

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politics

The Antithesis Trap in American Democracy

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Post date Jan 28, 2026
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Identity formation requires antithesis. In the United States, political coherence has long been organised around opposition: liberty against tyranny, democracy against monarchy, capitalism against communism, freedom against control. These oppositions carved boundaries that stabilised national identity, generated purpose, and coordinated collective action. Opposition was not incidental. It was structural. Without it, American identity would have […]

Philosophy

On Being Smart in Stupid Times

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Post date Jan 27, 2026
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Intelligence is becoming a liability. Not socially ornamental intelligence, not credentialed cleverness, but actual understanding. The kind that sees structure, delay, recursion, consequence. The kind that notices when a system is lying to itself. That form of intelligence generates friction. It interrupts performance. It destabilises belonging. It exposes the hidden costs that simple stories are […]

Tags algorithmic amplification, algorithmic governance, attention economy, attention manipulation, behavioral conditioning, cognitive load, cognitive manipulation, collective behavior, collective identity, communication theory, cultural dynamics, cultural engineering, cultural performance, cybernetics, digital authoritarianism, digital propaganda, emotional manipulation, fear and belonging, fear-based politics, identity formation, identity politics, ideological contagion, information warfare, learned behavior, mass mobilization, mass persuasion, mass psychology, media ecology, memetic transmission, narrative control, networked persuasion, performative politics, political manipulation, political psychology, political technology, power and influence, propaganda systems, social conformity, social control, social psychology, societal polarization, systemic risk, systems theory, technological influence, technological mediation

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 […]

Philosophy

Moral Inversion

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Post date Jan 17, 2026
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Nietzsche’s The Antichrist was not written to identify a villain in the conventional sense. It was an intervention aimed at disturbing complacency. His target was not a person, but a reversal: a situation in which values publicly affirmed as moral, spiritual, or redemptive had become detached from the practices and dispositions they purported to sanctify. […]

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Philosophy

Structural Insecurity Precedes Moral Failure

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Post date Jan 17, 2026
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Racism, misogyny, and other forms of exclusion recur not because they are compelling, justified, or desirable, but because large-scale social systems are biased toward generating them, or things like them, under stress. Calling this structural does not mean denying choice. People do make choices, good, bad, and ugly, and they live with the consequences of […]

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Repeats

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Post date Jan 13, 2026
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The same neurotic insecurities recur: pathological closure of language, minds, borders, and culture, converging into a perfect storm of radical ideology, technocratic overreach, and blind, arrogant greed.

Tags aesthetic resistance, aesthetic signal, affective capture, algorithmic mediation, attention regimes, automation and belief, borders and identity, cognitive enclosure, communicative closure, cultural drift, cultural thermodynamics, entropy in social systems, human cost (unspoken), ideology as pattern, ideology fatigue, institutional decay, language and control, late-modern anxiety, managed reality, modern mythologies, narrative collapse, perceptual governance, political psychology, political unconscious, post-liberal order, power without reflection, quiet dissent, semantic saturation, soft authoritarianism, structural violence (implicit), symbolic economy, symbolic scarcity, systemic-fragility, systems failure modes, systems theory, technocratic power

cybernetics

Conflict: Metaphysics of Non-Closure

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Post date Jan 11, 2026
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Conflict and competitive adversarialism are not necessarily moral failures or aberrations. They are contingent, historically acquired, culturally entrained mechanisms by which complex cognitive, cultural, and communicative systems reliably differentiate, learn, and reproduce themselves over time. These mechanisms arise because complexity does not form around completeness, nor does it arise from closure, certainty, or final resolution. […]

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politics

Self-Persecutory Autocracy

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Post date Apr 25, 2025
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Autocracy dreams of control but wakes, always, in its own nightmare. Power, once seized, begins to rot—from the inside. What presents as strategic certainty is a pathology of recursive insecurity: a system at war with itself, flailing outward to avoid inward collapse. Imperialism, in this light, isn’t expansion. It’s displacement. Displacement of fear, of internal […]

Alien Anthropology

Presidential Shit Show

Possibly the least comforting fact in regards to the Oval Office being two sandwiches and a sledge hammer away from becoming the Presidential rage room, is that a wide disaffection and alienated sense of abandonment that has in some measure led to this catastrophic shit show, it’s not entirely wrong. Ah, now there’s a problem: […]