The communicative field—call it language, media, platforms, signalling systems, whatever—does not sit outside us. It evolves through us, as us. What most people experience as agency, originality, or personal control is largely a selection effect inside a much larger communicative metabolism. We choose from it, we modulate it slightly, but the directionality is not ours. […]
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2026: The Stupid is Coming
- Post author By G
- Post date Dec 30, 2025
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- Tags 2026 prediction, algorithmic amplification, attention economy, authoritarian dynamics, cognitive degradation, collective cognition, collective intelligence collapse, communication systems, cultural entropy, entropic stupidity, entropy and power, fascism and spectacle, field intelligence, information overload, language and power, language degradation, low-friction discourse, media saturation, network effects, outrage economy, platform capitalism, political spectacle, post-truth politics, propaganda systems, semantic collapse, social media critique, systems collapse, systems theory, technocratic failure, technological entropy