This is why our societies struggle to rise up the the challenge of the times. Because they refuse to accept that the order upon which they rest always has the potential for fascism. That fascism is not a foreign perversion, but a reflection

The contrary idea, that all humans are human, is actually not Western at all; it was not forged in the salons of the Enlightenment, but by the muddied bloodied hands of those colonised and enslaved by the West as they clawed their way out of the pit they were put in by sole reason of their “race”

Fascism will not come from far away waving a swastika flag. It will be your neighbour. The guy you can “drink a beer with” because he “tells it like it is”. Because the dirty secret of the West is that “how it is” is that for centuries, if it is West, then it is best -and the West mind you, is white

But the Nazis were never “they” in Germany. Franco was not “they” in Spain; Mussolini was not “they” in Italy. They were all “us”; homegrown. The product of the darkest corners of Western civilisation, not its deformation or betrayal

It can’t be “them” again. They have to be the “right”, or “far right” even. No not nazis, not fascists. Because they are in our body politic. They are “people with legitimate concerns” about immigration and history. *We* can’t have possibly devolved into *them*. That’s “not how it works”

It is bizarre how people expect fascism to be trapped in a 1940s aesthetic. We’ve been trained to recognise it - and importantly, as a perversion of European civilisation. Nazis and swastikas are “they”, never “us”. So when *we* are faced with their modern-day heirs, we refuse to acknowledge it…

Modern economics must be underpinned by #biophysical economic foundations. Civilisations and economies, just like life forms, are about manipulating energy typically turning high entropy energy into lower entropic energy. This is a great article explaining what it is:

biophyseco.org/biophysical-...

A key point about #AI is they're not intelligent. LLM's like ChatGPT and DeepSeek predict text from accumulating large amount of data on how language is used. The LLM's don't understand what's being stated even though they appear to do so. 1/

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Niccolò Machiavelli argued that successful republics achieve stability by managing internal conflicts, as dissent and debate create a flourishing, active polity. He viewed passivity as a threat to a republic’s success.