Observations on the human condition
Following on from yesterday’s post on The forest of the Order, Alex explains the current noise around Stablecoins ignores the obvious: stablecoins are neither “stable”, nor innovative or revolutionary but merely intensification of the extractive logic of the money paradigm. There is an alternative coordination layer which is both innovative and evolutionary which is what … Read more
Book Review. A review of John Macgregor, The Mechanics of Changing the World: Political Architecture to Roll Back State & Corporate Power — by Clive Menzies John Macgregor’s The Mechanics of Changing the World arrives at a moment when the literature on democratic decline is long on diagnosis and short on remedy. His stated ambition … Read more
The last article asked a simple question: who benefits from your hatred? It traced the structural mechanics of managed conflict — the pilpul of opposing narratives, the harvesting of fear, the money system that makes war its most profitable product. That is the ground level view, and it is necessary. But there is a larger … Read more
The Season Changed is a short story told through the eyes of a child watching her neighbourhood quietly transform during a time of mounting uncertainty. I was nine when the season changed. Not the weather — the weather had already been strange for years, everyone said so, though they said it in the way adults … Read more
How a world that feels like madness is already growing its own replacement The Madness Is Real Let’s not pretend otherwise. Wars that grind on without resolution. Economic dislocation that hollows out communities faster than any explanation can account for. A cost of living that rises while wages stagnate, while savings dissolve, while the promise … Read more
It Is Working Exactly As Designed. And that is the most dangerous thing you can know. For the financial community, the article (link to .pdf) opens on your ground — monetary policy, risk, 2008 — then pulls the floor away by showing the design flaw is deeper than any policy can reach. The blockquote on … Read more
Alex and I produce papers and articles as our understanding of the transition to a new organisational paradigm evolves. The following two podcasts are derived from some of what we’ve written and provide an overview of where we are and where we seem to be heading, as a species, organisationally and consequently societally. This first … Read more
I was asked by Press TV to comment on the release of more data/emails from the Epstein files and Donald Trump’s alleged involvement in paedophilia and, by implication, Satanic Ritual Abuse. On Odysee: https://odysee.com/@Outersite.org:7/Spotlight31012026EpsteinFiles:d (video 25 minutes) Also available from Press TV’s website: https://preview.presstv.ir/ptv///program/20260131/Spotlight31012026.mp4 In the interview, I made some strong claims for which there … Read more
Having used ChatGPT from time to time to sharpen our focus to adequately describe what we’ve been exploring for the last few years (how the way we handle value is changing), I’ve taken a leaf out of Martin Geddes‘s book – using a combination of A.I. platforms (in this case ChatGPT and DeepSeek). At ChatGPT’s … Read more
My good friend and collaborator, Alex Nikolov, just posted this on LinkedIn: The Glass Bead Game: AI, Money, and the redefinition of Human Freedom A reflection on knowledge, value, computation, and the end of money and “free professions” Abstract Hermann Hesse’s 1931 novel The Glass Bead Game describes a future civilisation organised not around markets … Read more
We often point to the internet, its methodology, tools and technology as exemplars of direct value handling and its amazing benefits. One often sees references on social media to the existence of Tartaria, the history of which appears to have been suppressed through academia. That is not the subject of this article but is obviously … Read more