Art vs Science

Simulating nature, whether through art or science, is all for the same purpose of self-replication; the only provable universal law governing both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial life.

The modern Western philosophical tradition prioritises science over art in a hierarchy of purpose that seeks self-annihilation in order to break the cycle of human existence.

To observe is to know, but to paraphrase Mike Tyson, ‘everybody thinks they know until they get punched in the face.’

Cosplay

The first time I really understood the meaning of cosplay was when I encountered self-declared Marxists. The second time was when I started making art and actively sought out comradeship with artists in 'the scene'.

Naturally the two scenes overlap, the Marxist reaches the same conclusions about life that the artist does; namely that life is struggle and only cosplay can overcome struggle.

Class solidarity is their chosen means of cosplay, but it is a grand fiction that has more to do with appeasing their conscience than unifying human struggle into transformative change. How can a theory based on separating out humanity into antagonistic classes possibly bring sustainable justice without any kind of moral framework other than 'eat the rich' ?

The US Presidency inc.

Donald Trump is in every sense a continuation in the contemporary political history of the US Presidency; that of a limited executive branch, elected to sit at the centre of a long chain of more powerful domestic and global interests. Presidents are closer to CEOs, hired for their connections, performative ability, and malleable morality. Trump is both CEO of his own company, and CEO of the US Presidency as a brand.

Just as George Bush's role as President was to rubber stamp and cheerlead the ushering in of a New World Order first conceptualised long before he had even entered politics, Trump has a long list of already formulated policy ideas which are given to him, he simply needs to facilitate their passage into law. Policy formulation is the job of those directly underneath and above him; the likes of Stephen Miller, the Adelsons, the the Saudis, and previously Elon Musk.

Any critical review of 20th and 21st Century American Presidents would see Trump as a very logical successor to a long standing heritage in European/American politics of national socialism rooted in a myth surrounding a exaggerated sense of self i.e national pride, and a defined 'other'.

The only ideological difference between the two main parties today is in relation to the 'other', who must either be 'either liberated or enslaved' in the case of the Democrats, or who must be either enslaved, 'killed or expelled'; in the case of the Republicans.

These two central myths of White American Political history have lost significant power in recent decades, notably as corruption and de-nationalisation have drained the system of so much money that the primary function of taxation in America today is maintaining the national mythology for domestic consumption.

Trump is a response to the collapse of the national myth that the US has a duty to 'liberate' the 'other', in the way that Bush Presidency took to it's extreme both domestically and globally. That leaves only the choice of enslaving (Democrats) or killing them (Republicans).

Trump is historically closer to to the version of Putin at the beginning of his presidency. Political gangsterism becomes the norm the closer a system of government approaches internal collapse, primarily because systemic corruption and external infiltration (whether private capital or foreign actors) has simply reached monstrous proportions.

Efficiency is the new (and old) law of technology

AI is more than a bubble. A holistic analysis of the state of Semiconductors today must take AI into account; it is the new best thing in the Wall Street, and that is almost entirely separate from it's existence as a new phase in computational technology. As a development in computing AI is groundbreaking, but the death of Moore's Law proves that the only 'Natural Law' in technology is and has in fact always been efficiency.

The law of efficiency governs computational processors as it does all matter. Moore's Law was itself a bubble of thought and process which did not take into account wider realities such as climate disruption, and energy resource depletion. The only possible way forward for the semiconductor industry today lies in a more fundamental rule that forward thinking nations such as China have embraced; the future of man-made technology depends almost entirely on sustainable resource extraction and the existence of a liveable climate.