Observations on the human condition
My article linked below appears (page 13) in Issue 68 of The Light, a free, independently distributed monthly paper that asks the questions the mainstream won’t. This edition carries sharp structural analysis worth reading alongside it: Rusere Shoniwa traces the managed transition of global capital through the BRICS framework, while Escape Key dissects how the … Read more
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
On the Gifts and Costs of Living Through Symbols,and Possible Ways Forward by Alex Nikolov Our recent weekly WiseValue discussions have been exploring symbology; Alex published the following article on LinkedIn. There is also a 20 minute podcast. We are born clean! We are born innocent! Then we are claimed by theorder of symbols and … 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
A Short Story The alarm didn’t wake him. He’d been lying there since five, listening to his mum come in — the particular sound of her trying not to make noise, which was somehow louder than if she’d just walked normally. Keys on the hook. Shoes on the mat. The fridge opening, the specific creak … 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
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
A recent Korean film “No Other Choice” places the main protagonist in conflict with the structure that no longer requires his specialist skills and experience. The one job that he could get has better positioned candidates; his choice is to remove them from the field. The film is a graphic depiction of our self-abusing reality … 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
Pondering our work on value and adapting (to reality) late in the night, listening to Radio Paradise, I was moved to ask ChatGPT what it thought of the Baba Yaga in the Digital Age article, the video within it and the other links. After a shaky start (retreating into academic gate-keeping – its words, not … Read more