Power attracts projection. People excuse elite misconduct to preserve the illusion that dominance is earned rather than contingent, that wealth signals wisdom rather than the accumulated accidents of structure, timing, and luck. That projection is not merely psychological; it stabilises the system by protecting the myth that status reflects virtue. Predatory opportunism thrives in that […]
Strategic Immaturity: The belief that gaining control—whether by overthrowing, reforming, or mimicking existing structures—will alter the logic of power itself. In practice, such acts merely replicate and stabilize the very asymmetries they claim to end, reinforcing hierarchy under a new name. Power, once seized, becomes its own justification, not its solution.
It was a poor family’s living room, perhaps middle-aged in its furnishings—brown vinyl couch, lace curtains, the dull hum of the refrigerator cutting through the silence. Count Dracula stood in the doorway, narrating the long drift of history to the wife of the man he had just turned, consumed as undead. “I knew the future […]
Conscience or career? That’s the question. Dependency makes cowards of us all. The deeper loss is self-determination—eroded when choice, compliance, and corruptible ineptitude align. That loss is very likely irredeemable. No one’s really listening anymore. That silence is part of the problem. When societies slide toward control, people fall back on reflex and dogma. Positions, […]
It’s around the moment you realise that a corporate-ideological consolidation was never really necessary—that the mechanisms of money and power had already stabilised into self-sustaining forms—that the futility of it all becomes clear. The system was already running itself. Pushing further doesn’t strengthen it; it just shifts who gets to sit closer to the centre. […]
In every century, a new medium discovers how easily it can puppet the collective mind. The printing press made possible both Luther’s Reformation and the Thirty Years’ War; the telegraph and newspaper incubated nationalism; radio begot the theater of fascism; television normalized consumption as faith—and vice versa. Each era mistakes its medium for enlightenment until […]
Artificial intelligence will destroy us all only, or at least primarily, to the degree that human greed uses it as an amplifier. The destruction isn’t coming—it’s already underway.
In political and corporate communication, vacuity is often rewarded over insight. Research in media studies demonstrates that message repetition, even without substantive content, significantly increases perceived credibility and importance (Hasher et al. 1977). Political scientists have shown that rhetorical confidence is often taken as a proxy for expertise, regardless of factual accuracy (Petty and Cacioppo […]
Entropy is not just a principle of physics—it’s a principle of communication. Information systems, whether political, cultural, or technological, don’t move toward clarity; they move toward noise. In American politics, the spectacle of Trump is less about the man than about the logic of replication. Outrage travels faster than nuance, and so outrage becomes the […]
The world does not reward what it most urgently needs. Peace, wisdom, unity, compassion, foresight—these qualities generate too little turbulence to capture bandwidth in networks tuned to maximize throughput. Conflict, by contrast, multiplies combinations of noise, feeding the entropic appetite of systems that scale dissonance into profit. The result is a Gordian knot: we require […]
When two six-sided dice are rolled, some numbers appear more often than others, not because the dice are biased, but because the combinations that make them possible are more numerous. A two requires only one pairing—one and one—while a seven can be produced by six different pairings: one and six, two and five, three and […]
What we call government, institutions, or corporate leadership has collapsed into a single field of self-preservation, each part feeding and depending on the other until the distinctions blur. The machinery runs, not because it is working, but because nobody within it can stop. Failure is obvious, yet denial is structural—built into the protocols, the language, […]
Daedelus Kite 