On the Feeding of the State
·1677 words·8 mins
A satirical exercise in the tradition of Machiavelli's* The Prince *— examining the mechanics of state capture through the eyes of those who would engineer it.
Power Dynamics
The Persistence of Power: Class Struggle Beyond Ideology
·143 words·1 min
Examining how class struggle persists across different economic systems and ideologies, from capitalism to socialism to emerging AI-driven automation.
The Persistence of Power - Part 1: The Persistence of Class Struggle: A Structural, Not Ideological, Reality
·1007 words·5 mins
Exploring how class struggle endures as a structural property across different systems and ideologies.
The Mathematics of Tyranny - Part 2: When Good Systems Go Bad
·1863 words·9 mins
How power transforms personality, institutions decay systematically, and coalitions evolve through positive feedback loops that make tyranny self-reinforcing.
When Applause Becomes a Death Sentence - Part 4: Teaching the Knife: Why Terror Always Turns on Its Audience
·587 words·3 mins
Understanding how violent systems learn and evolve through crowd response, ultimately turning inward when external targets are exhausted.
When Applause Becomes a Death Sentence: Human Behavior Under Terror
·329 words·2 mins
A psychological and historical analysis of how public endorsement of violence paradoxically accelerates the very terror it seems to justify, ultimately turning on those who applaud.