- Sturtuppism and real need: we need steel mills not shared electric scooters.How does the sturtup mechanism work? Let’s make it simple: you have an idea that can potentially be an innovative business case but not too much otherwise, if no one does what you want to do you probably won’t find… Read More »Sturtuppism and real need: we need steel mills not shared electric scooters.
- City and CountrysideAlways opposition between culture and ignorance. But is this opposition still applicable today and if so, in what direction is it valid? Well, indeed it is still valid today but let us start once not in medias res but from… Read More »City and Countryside
- … but people aren’t stupid! … sheeple are stupid.Dilemma of the modern world. Or maybe no dilemma at all, sheeple are stupid, full stop. Everyone hates the sheeple. The smugly moralist hate the sheeple, who are the conspiracy-loving flat-earthers. The flat-earthers hate the sheeple, who represent the scientific… Read More »… but people aren’t stupid! … sheeple are stupid.
- Traffic light theorem, i.e. delays are not linear.«You don’t need to overtake in traffic, you’ll be stopped at the next red light anyway.» Nothing could be more false! Traffic is not linear but is a step function that has as its upper limit the speed at which… Read More »Traffic light theorem, i.e. delays are not linear.
- Kant and the Eye of Sauron: or Right and WrongEuropean civilisation has chosen its destroyer before the wall of dichotomy. The dichotomy is a wall, not a crossroads. Right and Wrong exist especially when standards, rules and assumptions are defined. Does Right and Wrong exist for Nature? NO. We… Read More »Kant and the Eye of Sauron: or Right and Wrong
- To be or Not-to be…Neither are we here to engage in politics nor to categorise Aristotelian hairs in the egg, but there is an interesting contrast in the political world that needs to be brought out into the open: to be right-wing or to… Read More »To be or Not-to be…
- Downward EurobaWe correct ourselves immediately, it is not just the Euroba but the entire Atlantic segment of the consumer society. We could quote the movie “Idiocracy” and end the article that way but we won’t. Rather, let us start by explaining… Read More »Downward Euroba
- Youth are not the future.Youth are the future! All too heard progressive slogan, repeated, emblazoned, mantra of modernity. But since we are as punctilious as an amanuensis monk who is copying an elaborate miniature but to whom something doesn’t quite add up: a color,… Read More »Youth are not the future.
- Law of technological progress and energy threshold.We want to speculate qualitatively by playing with the idea of technological progress: so let us put ourselves on the side of the absolute materialist boor who measures things by quantity, and well we can state the following law: Given… Read More »Law of technological progress and energy threshold.
- All against all while everything goes to shit.Us against ourselves: after all, it wasn’t exactly a fool who said that the first enemy to defeat is ourselves. Metaphorical bar chatter. This is the reality of the situation of Italian minds (and not only, probably) who have something… Read More »All against all while everything goes to shit.
- The ten enshitmentsDear Citizen™, you probably bought a Tesla, Apple, Dyson, VW Golf or something similar. After spending a disproportionate amount of money in relation to your gross salary™ that thing has broken in your hands, cracked, died, caught fire, tried to… Read More »The ten enshitments
- Processes of corruption.No, we are not talking about ‘legal’ processes but about processes understood as ‘procedure’; we could also call it algorithm or procedure. If corruption becomes the norm in society then it becomes just. Just in the sense not as an… Read More »Processes of corruption.
- Little Camo Riding Hood MMXXIIIA young girl, perhaps 13 years old, often ventured into the woods near the town where she lived with her parents. She always carried a book, a thermos of hot tea and a Swiss Army knife. A green military jacket,… Read More »Little Camo Riding Hood MMXXIII
- Push the pedal to the metal: the Progress.Moving forward. Humanity marching towards a prosperous future. Taking today as the necessary end point of yesterday and the starting point for tomorrow. Tomorrow better than the past, by necessity. This idea is so deeply rooted in modern western civilisation… Read More »Push the pedal to the metal: the Progress.
- Option and lack of Option in the world of Val Soya.When the choice becomes, in essence, indifferent. ApplePhone? or Samshugo? In a liberalised world one would believe oneself to be free right? Liberalisation has a big part of the word liberty in it, right? Yes, but from what perspective? To… Read More »Option and lack of Option in the world of Val Soya.
- Achilles and the Bureaucratic TurtleWestern society is on the verge of collapse, as a natural consequence of moral, political and technological decline, and it matters little what the local trigger is. So little does the following examination that came to the author’s mind when… Read More »Achilles and the Bureaucratic Turtle
- Ascending the mountain of oneselfThe mountain, like the sea, has the effect of bringing order and priority to things in the happening of the immediate. Among the peaks, in solitude, it no longer matters at what altitude you are, 1700, 1800, 2000, 3000, you… Read More »Ascending the mountain of oneself
- Inertial reference systemsLike Collodi’s fairy tale: if you go into Toyland, that is, if you give your physical and mental freedom to the master carny, you will be handing over your whole self without knowing what the bill will be. You will… Read More »Inertial reference systems
- The Hand Grenade TheoremWhen the functioning of certain things is a matter of life and death. A theorem, by definition, has a proof. In our figurative case, we will leave the concrete facts to prove the concept. What we will do briefly, however,… Read More »The Hand Grenade Theorem
- In foresightArticle from end 2020 that nobody published. It is a case of brushing up on a fundamental cognitive capacity, one of those that arguably earned mankind dominance over other species, and which, however, the very prosperity we have achieved has… Read More »In foresight
- StorytwistingReading the newspapers, watching the news, even listening to some heads of state, in addition to the normal sulphurous stench there is another miasma rising. A problem, a doubt that shrouds us like fog: those arguments, almost, go away. For… Read More »Storytwisting
- Laws of Nature and Laws of lawThe pandemic crisis and the Ukraine war crisis have highlighted how crucial the regulatory apparatus is seen to be fundamental in managing mass phenomena or global crises (according to the opinion of those who issue those regulations). The law is… Read More »Laws of Nature and Laws of law
- Sgaragac and thermodynamic bureaucracyaka man-soy dealing with fridges and stoves. Well, I would like to introduce you to a wonderful branch of physics and engineering: thermodynamics. Of course, one has to ask what thermodynamics has to do with the subject! But more importantly:… Read More »Sgaragac and thermodynamic bureaucracy
- Safety first and Will to PowerWe could say that since the French Revolution, the West has lost its connection to transcendence. Hence the failed attempt of Romanticism (tragedy of the Promethean man who sells his soul to the devil to achieve his ends). Actually, the… Read More »Safety first and Will to Power