A certain talent for inflammatory monosyllabic rhetoric and self-aggrandising histrionics might never have percolated up through the selection processes of liberal democracy had these qualities not already been a greater part and functional necessity of the political game…
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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…
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Culture: Gothic Complexity
The primary purpose of cultural systems, sub-systems and sub- or counter-cultures is also their primary method. That is (and fundamentally): the replication of the process of self-replication.
Working under a holistic, meta-theoretical framework of “what is the central similarity or notionally gravitational and logical pivot ?” of explanatory systems introduces multiple considerations of Epistemology and Ontology…
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Catastrophic Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy produces the preconditions for the intractable complexity of those problems to which it itself is aspirationally directed…
Self-propagating linguistic methods, full of culturally recursive sound and fury; signifying nothing…
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Self-Propagation
Explanation from within the notional bounds of any holistic systems theory at some level of abstraction must always represent an iterative sub-component and subject of its own process of introspective and explanatory or conceptual self-inspection…
Attempting to keep track of the endlessly unfurling Baroque curlicues and relentlessly iterating patterned flows of information and interpreted or shifting meanings leaves little time for big-picture comprehension or analysis…
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Inflection
Cultural and technological change and progress is an acceleration measured relative to its own process…
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Disentangling Doctor Who
Spoilers: Doctor Who unwittingly generates all of the anomalies and enigmas he appears to stumble across…
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Methods of Cultural Replication
Cultural replication is of the various dynamic methods and adaptive, evolving rules and frameworks of replication and culturally recursive information transmission.
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Cultural Recursion
We are witnessing the perpetuation of systems of rule and information transmission in which our own biological, psychological and existential biases lead us to mistakenly identify ourselves as the primary components (and purposes) of this process.
