When controversy becomes politically and commercially valuable, incompetence ceases to be merely a failure. Trump’s administration reveals how conflict reproduces authority, even at the expense of human dignity.
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Catastrophic Incompetence
He is a catastrophe, not only for the world but for himself. The pattern was never subtle. People were simply trained, over time, not to feel the full weight of it. Saturation does that. Repetition does that. A style of conduct that should have disqualified him from serious power was replayed so often that vulgarity […]
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Everyday Exasperation: Traumatic Tyrrany
Most people, across most periods of history, have lived less under grand political visions than under a weary determination to survive whichever charlatan, tyrant, or narcissist happens to drift into power at a given moment and in a given place. Populations are carried along in different ways. Some are swept up in the intoxication of […]
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2026: The Stupid is Coming
The communicative field—call it language, media, platforms, signalling systems, whatever—does not sit outside us. It evolves through us, as us. What most people experience as agency, originality, or personal control is largely a selection effect inside a much larger communicative metabolism. We choose from it, we modulate it slightly, but the directionality is not ours. […]
