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Polarisation

Public opinion in the United States increasingly seems to fall into a familiar pattern. Not a rule, not a law, and not a permanent split, but a recurring tendency. Roughly half the population appears to think that what is happening is not acceptable. Roughly a third seems broadly comfortable with it. The rest are harder […]

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Metabolic Power

Modern power does not stabilise disorder. It metabolises it. At planetary scale, technological and financial systems do not merely respond to uncertainty. They generate specific instabilities that make their own interventions appear necessary, then present themselves as the most probable remedy. This is not a claim about intent. It is a structural tendency of adaptive […]