Technocratic civilisation maintains its continuity through repeated technical discontinuity, and its security through the management of insecurity.
Tag: recursive systems
The flying car illustrates the peculiar absurdity of developing increasingly sophisticated means of getting somewhere while losing collective control over where we are going.
Nobody needs to control the machinery. Repeated communication changes what people notice, expect and respond to, gradually reshaping the culture and politics that emerge from those interactions.
A civilisation builds systems to solve its problems, then discovers that the systems have become the problems, while its dependence upon them has made their continuity deeply problematic.
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Institutions rarely fail because they cannot recognise problems. They fail because recognising problems is not the same as escaping the conditions that reproduce them.
Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.
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The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.
