The Hidden Arithmetic of Power - Part 4: The Blended Reality and the Search for Legitimacy
·992 words·5 mins
Exploring the blend of deception, exchange, and coercion in human systems.
Systems Thinking
The Hidden Arithmetic of Power - Part 3: The Calculus of Coercion and the Cost of Force
·1067 words·6 mins
Exploring coercion as a high-overhead mechanism of power.
The Hidden Arithmetic of Power - Part 2: When Giants Clash and the Market Emerges
·1087 words·6 mins
Exploring exchange as a mechanism of power in symmetric conflicts.
The Hidden Arithmetic of Power: Deception, Exchange, and Coercion in Human Systems
·244 words·2 mins
Exploring the three mechanisms of social power: deception, exchange, and coercion.
The Hidden Arithmetic of Power - Part 1: The Seduction of the Cunning Path
·1127 words·6 mins
Exploring deception as a foundational mechanism of social power.
The Great Enclosure - Part 3: Re-enchanting Politics and the Restoration Story
·661 words·4 mins
Proposing a restoration story to reclaim democracy from neoliberalism.
The Great Enclosure - Part 2: The Tollbooth Economy and the Loneliness Epidemic
·662 words·4 mins
Examining how privatization creates tollbooth economies and leads to social isolation.
The Great Enclosure: How Neoliberalism Turned Citizens into Consumers
·304 words·2 mins
A systemic X-ray of neoliberalism, turning citizens into consumers, a tollbooth economy extracting rent from essentials, and shifting blame onto individuals. The fix, a restoration story built on cooperation, commons, and participatory democracy.
The Great Enclosure - Part 1: The Blank Slate and the Birth of the Consumer
·690 words·4 mins
Exploring the origins of neoliberalism from the Madeira deforestation to the 1938 Paris conference.
The Competence Hedge: Mastering the Game When the Odds are Rigged
·1349 words·7 mins
Exploring how unrivaled expertise serves as a hedge against systemic failures and crises.