A healthy system rarely needs to shout. It grows complexity in silence, nourishes dissent without collapse, and tolerates ambiguity because it trusts its capacity to adapt. When systems become brittle, however, they begin to ossify around templates—rubrics of deterministic, historical certainty, slogans that substitute for creative or individual thought, and pageantry that masks—and all while […]
It is simpler, if often appropriate, to condemn governments for their serial failures to successfully negotiate and interdict slavery and human trafficking. We would all do well to also understand that the reproduction of specific, known and well-defined classes of inequitable outcomes are not merely a consequence of corruption and failures of intelligence where these […]
It is a beautiful, tragic irony that the most powerful symbol against slavery might be that of the stone slave, themselves eternally imprisoned in time and matter. There is something in this: the symbol creates and represents what it detests; minds (and cultures) create their own unwitting blind-spots in this way. Slavery is of course […]
Daedelus Kite 