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Philosophy

The Business of Political Insecurity

Political insecurity mirrors the dynamics of cybersecurity in that the act of securing does not eliminate risk but displaces it into new configurations. In digital systems, firewalls, encryption, and patches reduce certain vulnerabilities but simultaneously generate others, leaving end-users and clients to absorb the cost of residual exposure (Anderson, 2020). Politics demonstrates the same recursive […]

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Alien Anthropology

Our Tribalism is Endemic but Silly

How to alienate and enrage 99% of the world? Tell them that almost all of their contemporary cultural practices, beliefs, interests, hobbies and pastimes are shallow, superficial assertions of tribal identity that do little more than provide temporary comfort in an ultimately hostile, selfish and uncaring world. It is not that these cultural practices and […]