Modern political systems often reward symbolic fluency over systems literacy. The result is a governing class skilled at hierarchy, performance, and institutional ritual, but poorly equipped to understand the complex, recursive problems it claims to manage.
Beliefs persist less because they are true than because they provide the transient continuity of narrative as semantic coherence.
Disinformation is not the opposite of information, but one of the ways communication organises uncertainty into meaning. Its deeper structure belongs less to politics than to the philosophical problem of how truth, coherence, and identity emerge at all.
Advertising sells illuminated absence, incentivising us to pursue idealised selves that remain permanently, profitably out of reach.
It took me a long time and much exasperation to recognise and acknowledge that the first rule of communication systems theory club is: do not tell people about the theory. Not because the theory is secret. Because the theory is ineffective as information. People are not waiting for a better model of the system that […]
The same neurotic insecurities recur: pathological closure of language, minds, borders, and culture, converging into a perfect storm of radical ideology, technocratic overreach, and blind, arrogant greed.
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