The machinery does not need to fail. It only needs to keep working in ways that make more of itself necessary.
Tag: technocracy
Technocratic complexity and populist caricature are parts of the same feedback loop. Each produces the conditions that sustain the other.
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pity the children
A healthy society expects children to become adults. An unhealthy one encourages adults to remain immature.
We are passing a turning point at which the value of human cleverness becomes actively obscured and wilfully excluded by technocratic over-reach.
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how capitalism reconstructs scarcity
The institutions assigned to solve our deepest problems are sustained by these, the very relations they are unable and/or unwilling to question.
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why destructive identities take hold
Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.
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enlightenment
Enlightenment begins where the search for certainty ends.
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better politics
The task is not to create perfect agreement, but to maintain enough shared coherence that a society can continue solving problems without tearing itself apart.
There is, at present, a strange cultural requirement to pretend that billionaires are evidence of societal success rather than evidence of systemic imbalance.
The Coalition’s recent turn on immigration should not be read only as a policy announcement. It is better understood as a communication event in which a party under pressure has reached for one of the oldest political instruments available: the conversion of broad social anxiety into a visible outsider. In its own language, the Coalition’s […]
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The Problems a System Can See
Climate breakdown, war, energy insecurity, public health strain, technocratic overreach, automated exclusion, administrative drift, and the industrial circulation of disinformation are usually treated as separate crises, each assigned its own expert language, governance model, technical platform, and emergency response. But the deeper pattern is structural. Large systems do not merely solve problems. They determine which […]
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S.O.S: AI Edition
Let’s save AI, and ourselves, from the people currently running it as though technical intelligence were sufficient to govern human life. The problem is not simply that they are foolish in some ordinary sense, but that they mistake optimisation, scale, fluency, abstraction, and wealth for wisdom. Technical intelligence does not transduce lived experience with anything […]
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