Category: MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE
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Mainstream Monoculture
The mainstream molds us like clay, shaping us into a monoculture—an artificial orchard of uniformity. Each of us, like the rows of apple trees, stands neatly in line, subject to the same pesticides that poison our authenticity. Our minds, pruned and cut, are directed to grow in ways that serve a larger machinery. This training—this…
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The stranger king
What Hernán Cortés did, you see, was more than just landfall on some foreign coast—it was a whole operation. Stranger King theory, they call it now. Marshall Sahlins, anthropologist, mapped it out: the colonial playbook, rubber-stamped, refined, perfected, executed to the letter. It starts with smoke and mirrors, offering peace to warring tribes while the…
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Divine Complex: Predestination in the Land of Tech
It’s not about the algorithm, not really. Sure, they like to talk about algorithms—like they’re the ultimate proof of their genius—but that’s not what drives them. What’s at the heart of Silicon Valley isn’t some cold calculus or even technological innovation. It’s the feeling—that religious sensation of predestination, a kind of self-assured destiny etched into…
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How to Fool Randomness
Randomness, they tell you, is the final law, the chaotic heartbeat behind the facade of order. Everything we see, everything we touch, they say, is the product of chance. The dice are always rolling, the particles always dancing in their unpredictable ballet, and we, the witnesses, have no choice but to watch as reality collapses…
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The War Machine Spins: Notes from the Edge of the Borderline Collapse
Reading the situation now, it seems pretty clear that the drug trade in Mexico has transformed into something far closer to a nationalized enterprise than anyone on either side of the border would ever dare admit. This is not some back-alley, dime-bag hustle – no, this is a full-scale industry, woven into the sinews of…
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Philosophy and Konratieff cycles
Konratieff cycles, also known as Kondratiev waves or long waves, are economic cycles lasting approximately 40 to 60 years, named after the Russian economist Nikolai Kondratieff. Kondratieff proposed that capitalist economies go through long-term cycles of boom and bust due to technological innovations, changes in infrastructure, and shifts in economic fundamentals. These cycles are often…
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Hegel and Schopenhauer: A Financial Tragedy in the Mind’s Stock Exchange
Hegel and Schopenhauer, the intellectual titans of a bygone era, were not just philosophers but market shakers in the stock exchange of human thought. To understand their contributions, one must imagine their ideas as commodities traded in a mind-bending financial marketplace—a turbulent carnival of intellectual volatility where Hegel, the optimistic bull market writer, and Schopenhauer,…
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A Carrier Bag Theory of Systems
In the world of system design and implementation, the path from conception to deployment is fraught with unexpected complexities and inefficiencies. As John Gall might astutely observe, systems invariably cost more, take longer, and deliver less than anticipated. This truism extends seamlessly to new architectures, where the promise of streamlined functionality and optimized performance often…
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Free Stuff
The irony is thick when a Silicon Valley VC criticizes the concept of “free stuff” while the entire tech industry often thrives on giving away services for free, monetizing data, or operating on a “freemium” model. Silicon Valley’s success has largely been built on repurposing industries and offering free or heavily subsidized services to consumers,…
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Punk as Neoliberal Protocol
Downtown, a discordant symphony played out in cracked vinyl and safety pins. Punk, they called it, a sonic Molotov cocktail lobbed at the bloated belly of the Man. Yet, embedded within its snarling riffs lurked a paradox more byzantine than a Pynchonese plot twist. This rebellion, birthed in fetid dives reeking of stale beer and teenage…