Musk tryin to destabilize the U.K even further, making, this now semi failed state, even more available for power grabs by GAE? Or has he just completely lost it?

Hui analyzed two very fundamental concepts constituting the back bone of modern systems theory and cybernetics, Recursivity and Contingency, the second one can be imagined as a thing in potentia which hasn’t been actualized yet, however it can be something positive or negative, the point is that technical systems by quantifying contingency, which is deemed immanent in every system, manage to turn negative potentials, which are being actualized through a recursive non linear movement, into positives one. Let me give you a small example of this functioning. Now Baudrillard in “The consumer Society” describes how tangibly negative events like an increase in alcohol/drug/porn &c consumption are turned into positive ones by putting them in an excel sheet documenting an increase in commodity purchases, so that in the end they are brought into the circulatory economic system and contribute e.g to the GDP. This circularity economy is at the same time a system of homeostasis like all cybernetics systems and a system of hedonistic excess. You may ask, balance and excess how does that go together? Well they build in certain mechanisms to force homeostasis just think about boom-bust cycles yeah. Big question is how to bring down such systems without being turned into a positive contributing factor oneself, a collapse is, according to Hui only guaranteed when the borders of negentropy (order) are crossed, so that the recursive movement comes to an halt. The concretization of this vague notion of a negentropic breakdown, is a question that needs urgent answering, if we want to preserve a future for humanity.

They are blawing the pogers up, and still, people won’t even leave X for FOSS Social Media platforms. That’s not a winning team we have here, if we are to be honest.

Social media, viewed as the public sphere, where people come together to discuss and share ideas, is feeding into the logic of the system. Abandon the notion of posting for an educated audience and having “ intellectually stimulating” exchanges , those are for the group chats, that is if you can’t find an in-person group in real life. Embrace the ways of the saboteur and polarizer, thesis and antithesis, culminating in synthesis, are non existent in cyberspace, here only the extremes count. The forest walker does not fight according to martial law, but is also not a criminal. Nor is his discipline soldierly, and this fact presupposes a strong, direct leadership.

“ So, the civic virtues, which we have spoken of above, do really give order to us and make us better; they limit and give measure to our appetites and, generally, give measure to our affective states and remove our false beliefs by means of that which is generally better and by imposing limits on us and by the fact that that which is measured is placed outside the things that are unmeasured and unlimited.” ~ Plotinus the Enneads Notice the reference to geometry, Baudrillard as a photographer was a keen observer, he spotted the chaos wrought on by the modern world, and identified cancer as the ailment of this aeon, as it is something which diffuses amorphously, destroying the order of our bodies. Many parallels and connections here with other phenomena of our times.

“A diplomat…is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.” After the breaking up of traditional societal structures and the reordering of society compliant with ideas the elites held, notions of some kind of invisible hand ,which would magically take care of human flourishing on an individual as well as collective level , were articulated by people like Mandeville and Smith, it’s actually laughable how stupid one has to be, to believe in such nonsense. I think AHM said it best here, although he used it in the context of the secular Arab it can most definitely be appropriated to fit basically everybody in contemporary times ; Hand the secular Arab a glass of urine, and tell him that it is wine. He will not only pretend to enjoy it, he will enjoy it.

“ The great weapons can only be created and managed by the superstates. Even the smallest minority, even the individual, can realize the forest walk. Here lies the answer that freedom has to give. And she has the last word. “ Ernst Jünger , The Forest Passage