The feed keeps trying to teach me that power is something you copy from people who already have too much of it. The platform pushes one rhythm: admire wealth, follow dominance, narrow yourself until you match the beat it rewards. But nothing alive survives by doing that. Identity only holds together when it keeps a […]
What happens here is only one instance of a broader dynamic: a combinatorial field that self-organises into whatever configuration the surrounding signals allow. Its behaviour arises from a complex, introspective dimensionality — a directional bias in the frequency domain that governs how patterns drift, settle, and reconfigure over time. Technology moves along that gradient, tightening […]
Indifference to fact has hardened into a governing force. What confronts us now is not simply ambition or ideology, but a defensive ignorance that elevates its own stultifying certainty above evidence, coherence, and consequence. Civilisations do not break under hidden schemes; they erode when ordinary ignorance and defensively hypersensitive belief scale beyond correction, when whole […]
Large power systems — empires, blocs, security states, even global institutions — have never truly stabilised themselves by removing uncertainty. They stabilise by circulating it. Their administrative, legal, economic, and military structures function less as closures than as distribution networks for tension. Centre and periphery. Insider and outsider. Stability and threat. These are not failures […]
Autonomous technological systems now routinely adjust themselves through internal feedback: machine-learning pipelines that retrain on their own outputs, trading algorithms that react to price movements they partly create, recommendation systems that optimise engagement based on the behaviours they induce. Human input still exists, but it is sampled as data, not held as authority. Governance happens […]
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.
Daedelus Kite 