The appeal of populism is that it makes complexity feel unnecessary. The cost is usually discovered much later.
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2026: The Stupid is Coming
The communicative field—call it language, media, platforms, signalling systems, whatever—does not sit outside us. It evolves through us, as us. What most people experience as agency, originality, or personal control is largely a selection effect inside a much larger communicative metabolism. We choose from it, we modulate it slightly, but the directionality is not ours. […]
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