The probable is a proper subset of the possible. Old habits die hard because viable communication preferentially reproduces patterns that make themselves more likely to recur.
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unbalanced: political recursion
Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.
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what holds a society together?
Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?
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adaptation: fixing aussie politics
There is no final closure. No permanent certainty. No government that fixes everything forever. There are only systems that adapt well and systems that adapt badly.
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better politics
The task is not to create perfect agreement, but to maintain enough shared coherence that a society can continue solving problems without tearing itself apart.
Change the timing and you change the structure. Communication is not merely the transfer of information through a network but the propagation of signals through media of different densities, delays, and constraints. Small temporal modulations accumulate. Phase shifts become interference patterns. Interference becomes organisation.
Cognitive bandwidth becomes cultural destiny because the carrying capacity of technologically mediated communication systems exceeds the carrying capacity of the biological minds living inside them.
Large populations have, at various points in history, rallied behind loud, simple, certainty-projecting figures who promise restoration, strength, or clarity amid confusion, even as those same movements steadily erode the very conditions upon which stability and shared reality depend, the quiet alignment between what people say, what they do, and what the world allows to […]
Politics is not failing because people have become irrational; it is failing because the systems that coordinate perception, timing, and response have slipped out of phase, and what we are experiencing as conflict, populism, volatility, and institutional drift is the visible surface of a deeper timing problem in large-scale communication systems, one that also describes […]
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It is not about politics
Across many countries, the current wave of populism looks like a political shift. It is, but it is also something deeper: a change in how communication systems select and stabilise meaning.
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