Observations on the human condition
There is something I should say at the outset. I have been using artificial intelligence to help my writing with increasing frequency since starting to explore what it can and can’t do about a year ago. I don’t particularly worry about what people think, but I am aware of the perception risk: that articles assisted … Read more
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
I finished the previous article with “My next step will be to discuss how we are already experiencing the transition to direct value handling: we are socialising problems and solutions via various platforms/portals.“. Here is the resulting discussion with ChatGPT based on this paper:https://www.outersite.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/TheNewOrganisationalParadigm.pdf Yes — I think your claim is well-founded, and importantly, it … Read more
In this first video, I had the opportunity to lay out some of the context, as to why the world is the way it is. YOUTH MATTER TOPIC PARADIGM SHIFT IN TODAY’S POLITICAL ECONOMY 2024-10-22 (video 54 minutes 25 seconds) I supplied a list of references before the interview: Hierarchy and Political Economy – Birkbeck Presentation … Read more
The Critical Thinking project that started in 2012, set out to answer this question and arrived at answers within the first five years of its work. Hierarchy and Political Economy – Birkbeck Presentation 2016 (video 51 minutes 28 seconds)Presentation of Critical Thinking’s analysis, pointing to three fundamental flaws in the global political economy.The analysis was … Read more
I was asked to join the Spotlight programme last night to discuss Europe’s economic crisis. Spotlight: EUROPE ECONOMIC WOE (video 21minutes 23 seconds)Discussion of the inflationary and economic crisis unfolding across Europe with Esha Krishnaswamy and Clive Menzies In my contribution, I talk about people awakening to reality. By implication, I was talking about the … Read more
Although many people still don’t know it In October 2019, we warned that the human cull was imminent and that mass “vaccination” was one of the possible means to deliver population reduction. In 2020, we explained that the Covid trojan was phase 4 in the war on us all that provided justification for mass vaccination. … Read more
I was asked to comment on the unfolding economic crisis in the UK for Press TV’s Spotlight programme on Saturday 3 December 2022 Spotlight – UK Economic Crisis 3 December 2022 (video 24 minutes 55 seconds)Britain inflation rate stands at 41-year high of 11.1% amid soaring food and energy prices. UK media say soaring costs … Read more