Tag: geopolitics
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Poker, Chess, Bridge, and Go
Everyone talks about the game as if there’s only one. But there are at least four. Four players. Four strategies. Four clocks. All layered over the same world like mismatched transparencies. The United States deals in poker—fast, brash, bluff-heavy. It thrives on leverage, spectacle, and calculated risk. Winning isn’t about holding the best hand—it’s about…
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Non-Euclidean Politics
Trapped in the Symbolic Order: They peddle their ideologies like used cars on a Martian lot – left wing, right wing, all rusted-out Lacaninan signifiers with a Symbolic Order malfunction. Stuck in their pre-Imaginary world, these Euclidean politicians can’t grasp the writhing, pulsating Real of realpolitik. They see the world as a goddamn line graph,…