Observations on the human condition
A fifth-dimensional love-field model of time, and its consequences for coordination and value Two short documents circulated recently within the WiseValue group that deserve careful attention. They arrived not as finished arguments but as an unfolding inquiry — the kind of genuine question that carries more signal than most polished conclusions. What follows is an … Read more
How Tokenised Money-Market Funds Magnify Systemic Risk and Accelerate Extraction at the Top by Alex Nikolov Following on from Alex’s articles, Borrowed Stability and The Forest of the Order, he expands his critique of stablecoins and the measures granting BlackRock extraordinary privilege and power. I. The Next Act in the Stable Circus In a previous … Read more
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
A Short Story I was eleven when they began teaching me the value of things. Not the value my brother had been taught — he was seventeen when his heart stopped, in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday, and what they taught him died with him in ways nobody in our family has yet found … 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
Alex Nikolov provided this article: How Britain stole $45 trillion from IndiaAnd lied about it. (Al Jazeera) In 1750, India produced around 25 % of global industrial output. By 1900, after British rule, this had fallen to just 2 % — a dramatic decline in industrial share over the course of colonial domination. This was … 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