This is how it starts: the heatwaves, the droughts, the fires, the extreme weather…
Tag: politics
On Autopilot
Having successfully equipped myself with precisely the wrong set of mental tools and concepts to survive in this particular hyper-commercial and aggressively competitive world…
Self-organising cultural, political and communications-system architectures tend to rapidly capitalise upon and exploit technical tool-sets, vectors or opportunities when they appear…
Political Kindergarten
A chaotic world undergoing constant and accelerating metamorphosis requires keen intellect and insight to navigate, not the kindergarten chaos we most commonly observe…
Continuity of Civilisation
There may be an irresolvable existential bottleneck between self-seeking commercial incentives and the long-term continuity of human civilisation.
Building Blocks
It seems that we require the constant validation of the simplest narrative building blocks and a recurrent reinforcement of superficial trivialities…
S.O.S: Global Political Failures
No one is coming to save us from ourselves, it looks like we’ll need to work through this together…
Global Conflict: The End of History ?
If we can’t find ways to agree, perhaps we can find less unhealthy ways to maintain the disagreements by which we seem to so vicariously define ourselves…
Duplicity, Politics & Regulation
Don’t assess a system by its mission statements so much as by its behaviour…
Zero-Sum Games
There may be more-or-less hard-wired psychological reasons why we are unable to successfully navigate our shared problem-spaces…
Gullibility and Ignorance
With or without reasons, we tend to fly on autopilot and by instinct alone…
Look before you leap…