Everyone knows a dickhead. The interesting question is why the conditions that generate them do so, enduringly, and with such uncanny frequency.
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A Theory of Dickheads
Tag: systems theory
Technocratic complexity and populist caricature are parts of the same feedback loop. Each produces the conditions that sustain the other.
Meaning repeats because recurrence builds structure, and structure influences what follows. History rhymes for much the same reason.
Disinformation does not persist because individual false claims survive. It persists because the communicative relations that make those claims meaningful continue to reproduce themselves.
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Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
Civilisations persist by continually reorganising themselves. The unanswered question is whether conflict, crisis and systemic collapse/renewal remain the principal means through which that persistence is achieved.
