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The Strange Gravity of Compassion

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Post date Feb 3, 2026
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The Dalai Lama’s audiobook, recently recognised with a Grammy, is not framed as a political intervention. It is a work of reflection, oriented toward compassion, ethical responsibility, and the cultivation of inner steadiness. Yet the figure of the Dalai Lama does not circulate in a neutral field. His public presence remains entangled with a long […]

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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 […]