Romance promises fulfilment, but its variously acquired mechanisms are fuelled by dissatisfaction. Biology supplies the desire, culture sells the fantasy, and commerce profits from the effectively irreconcilable distance between desire and fulfilment.
A country unable to defend itself risks losing its independence. A country unable to question itself risks losing the capacity to recognise when that independence has already been compromised.
The greatest threat from Big Tech isn’t superior intelligence. It’s ordinary stupidity armed with extraordinary power.
Our political and commercial systems profit from the crises they perpetuate, rendering meaningful dissent unintelligible and civilisational failure commercially indispensable.
Humanity is caught in a planetary feedback trap. Our technologies, institutions and political systems increasingly reproduce the psychological instability they intend to resolve.
What happens when the people least equipped to recognise intelligence become responsible for selecting, rewarding and managing it?
A society sustains peace through care, difference and collective intelligence, organising its institutions to preserve life, enable participation and adapt to changing circumstances.
We mistake extreme wealth for extraordinary human worth, celebrating billionaires as visionaries while overlooking the collective labour, public investment and institutional power behind their fortunes. It’s time to stop confusing wealth with wisdom.
How veterans’ services and the NDIS reveal the displacement of human need by billing, commercial expansion and institutional self-preservation.
We built machines to finish our sentences. Now they are helping us finish the world.
Political systems are historical constructions, not immutable necessities. Their persistence does not establish their continuing adequacy.
We have constructed a civilisation in which recognising existential risk has become another reason to continue producing it.
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