Who benefits from stoking the fires of fear, insecurity and hatred?
Tag: politics
Productive Entropy
Death is productive in ways that might never be comfortably acknowledged.
The Test of Good Government
The true measure of value and of political, organisational and ideological sincerity is the extent of persistent selfless sacrifice and unselfish compassion.
What if there was nothing…
What if there was nothing at all?
The Hollow Men
One thing I notice about getting older is the way that things start to get away from you…
There is only one underlying logical information system – all ideologies are contingent interpretations that are biased towards selfish needs.
Conflict and the means or methods of its execution lie at the center of all personal and (by extension or necessary inversion) collective history.
Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems.
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.
A view from the periphery on 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.
Blind Chance
Good fortune or success may be more often a matter of statistical probability than of human intention or intervention.