A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
Tag: systems
The objective function of civilisation is not wealth, growth or power. It is the continual reproduction of the conditions that make civilisation itself possible.
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dire straits: the economics of delay
Mechanisms created to manage a recurring condition may become dynamically coupled to, and dependent upon, the continued existence of that condition.
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system time
Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.
Communication does not move through organised systems; organised systems emerge from the interference patterns of communication.
What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.
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bureaucratic entropy
The system’s entropy offset becomes the labour imposed on those required to submit to its assumptions in order to reproduce its organisational structure through time.
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stop making sense
No finite system of distinctions exhausts the relational continuity from which those distinctions arise. Reality exceeds every local logic.
Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.
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the value of nothing
The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.
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social distortion: disaffection
Disaffection is not giving up. It is what happens when you can no longer see yourself in the world that helped create you.
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political role play
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.
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