America is so profoundly lost that it had to declare twice in 4 years that it is "back" (Biden 2021, Trump 2025). Back where? It is as if, to use Ibn Arabi's expression, it tries to "declare itself alive", after it has been mourned and buried.

Weakness might be the opposite of strength, but is not the opposite of power, because it is a kind of power.

There is an inexplicable disgust from Trumpists towards "Zelensky" as an image, and mostly it boils down to his perceived weak force. They see him as a parasite whose proper position is to be a food. When Tiel said that "woke is hyper-Christianity", what he meant is that being weak is disgusting.

Each breaking news presents itself as the last news that will finish all news forever and yet — the show has to go on.

If anything is endangered, it is a lie. LLMs never lie; they 'hallucinate.' We don't lie anymore because everything is supposed to enact whatever is said. If there is still a lie, it becomes a moment in the movement of truth, which retroactively turns the lie into truth.

I can imagine FPV drone operations being sold on the dark web as a form of taboo war gaming, where participants pay to control drones in real conflicts for entertainment.