A more durable security paradigm would concern the organisation of differences through which competition can continue without destroying the conditions necessary for its participants to survive.
The defining challenge of this century is no longer building more powerful technologies. It is developing human and institutional capacities capable of understanding, governing, and surviving the systems we have already created.
Communication does not move through organised systems; organised systems emerge from the interference patterns of communication.
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.
Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.
The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.
Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.
