The current US President destabilised one of the most tightly coupled junctions on Earth, then seemed surprised when the consequences spread. The deeper problem is that political, ideological and socioeconomic systems often reproduce themselves through the disorder they create.
We keep telling the same stories in different ways. The faces, crises and characters change. The same tribal pattern keeps finding new forms.
A home is not simply somewhere a person lives. It is somewhere from which a life can continue.
The machinery does not need to fail. It only needs to keep working in ways that make more of itself necessary.
Everyone knows a dickhead. The interesting question is why the conditions that generate them do so, enduringly, and with such uncanny frequency.
Technocratic complexity and populist caricature are parts of the same feedback loop. Each produces the conditions that sustain the other.
Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
The technological system cannot perceive its full costs because that blindness is one of the conditions of its success.
We are passing a turning point at which the value of human cleverness becomes actively obscured and wilfully excluded by technocratic over-reach.
The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.
Language does not merely describe civilisation. It quietly engineers the conditions of its own persistence through us.
A civilisation organised around limitless acquisition on a finite planet turns systemic collapse into a KPI.
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