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View all →Stupidity as a disease of society
Modern confidence has torn itself loose from competence. The environment systematically severs the loops by which the brain was calibrated against reality for centuries — from the hippocampus to the minister's cabinet. Below is how the break works and what the population counters already record.
Marketing Has No Strategy
Confidence long ago tore itself loose from competence: the ad auction slowly rewrites products for the random passers-by, the language of brands — to a template, and the strategy of companies — to someone else’s chart. How the mechanism works and why almost no one notices it from inside.
The Closed Circuit
The architecture of a race in which signals are replaced by metrics — and rent is collected on every turn of effort
Man Without Resistance
How civilization destroyed the friction between desire and result — and what happened when the interface consumed its master
The Human Anthill 2.0. Part 2 of 2: The Lighthouse
Four late Zinoviev books against the readings of this blog: an office without staff, the confessional speaks first, a hole in the law, and the lighthouse's duty.
The Human Anthill 2.0. Part 1 of 2: The Mirror
Zinoviev described society as protocol, without compassion: mass under dry rules, Westernism without accountability, confessionals and the archive.
When Debt Becomes Collateral: Figures, Charts, Diagrams. Appendix to the Trilogy
The visual reference for the trilogy: $28T of collateral, 2–3x rehypothecation, the LCLOR wall, 100x fund leverage, yen carry, and the digital Plan B. Numbers simplified, logic preserved.
The Three Crutches of the Dollar: Who Really Holds Up the Global Financial System. Part 2 of 3
The dollar rests on three temporary structures: Treasury T-bills, the Fed's reserve 'floor', and the Bank of Japan's cheap yen. We break down each one — and how they could collapse.
How We Got Here: The Dollar, the Yen, and Digital Collateral. Part 1 of 3
The dollar became world money in 1944 and left gold in 1971. Five stories about why today the dollar and the yen are more closely linked than they seem.