Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems. Continue reading Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
Tag: politics
A World at War with Itself
At the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, it is a good time to reflect upon where we are all going as a civilisation and what we might plausibly achieve to inhibit, interdict or halt the possibility of any similar global catastrophes from ever occurring again. Continue reading A World at War with Itself
The Tribal Self-Validation of Academic Cliques
A view from the periphery on the tribal self-validation of academic cliques. Continue reading The Tribal Self-Validation of Academic Cliques
Only Logic Wins Wars
Only the logic of technology wins war and war is indeed the one place that accelerated technological evolution is guaranteed. All of which leads us to a probable inevitability of conflict, written deeply into nature of information systems and logic. Continue reading Only Logic Wins Wars
Blind Chance
Good fortune or success may be more often a matter of statistical probability than of human intention or intervention. Continue reading Blind Chance
Directionless: The Teleological Vacuum of Global Civilisation
Humanity spends far too much time bickering and fighting over how we will collectively move forward to ever actually get on with the very serious business of actually ensuring our own continuity, survival and ongoing tenure on this planet. Continue reading Directionless: The Teleological Vacuum of Global Civilisation
On Tribal Narratives and Environmental Catastrophe
A core human psychological trait of small-scale tribal herding may work against the kind of global organisational unity and cooperation required to cultivate substantive industrial and economic change in the limited time still available to us. Continue reading On Tribal Narratives and Environmental Catastrophe
