Stanley Kubrick’s main theme was the sabotage of LOYALTY
How A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Barry Lyndon, and 2001 keep returning to the same grim question: “Who stays faithful to whom—and why?” Stanley...
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From Visible Thrones to Invisible Systems: Power too complex for the people
Pre- and post-Enlightenment governance, the changing face of elites, and why modern freedom of critique coexists with modern confusion The Enlightenment did not abolish power—its...
Strategic Disunity as Strategy
How NATO could benefit from not always looking unified (with Greenland and Ukraine as live examples in January 2026) Image: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com NATO...
Royal reward system: The UK’s organized sex rings from the late 1800s to today
Recurring high-level sex scandals and alleged cover-ups in the UK from Cleveland Street (1889) to Savile, Kincora, Mountbatten, and Prince Andrew Whether the Mesopotamian empires,...
The Trump Show vs. the Governing Machine
How and why Republicans may “oversell” Trump’s personal agency in public while relying on institutional option-menus behind the scenes Image: Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com American...
Forecasting Revolt: Project Camelot, its descendants, and the long U.S. search for early warning of uprisings
There’s a perennial temptation in statecraft: treat rebellion like weather—something you can instrument, model, and forecast early enough to “get ahead of it.” In the...
The abuse of psychometrics to antagonize different segments of the population
How trait inference + targeting systems can turn ordinary disagreement into identity conflict 1) What psychometrics is in this context Psychometrics, in its legitimate form,...
Inter-human loyalty in real life versus the extravagant bonds of movies, television, and novels
Image: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com Loyalty is one of those words that feels simple until you try to pin it down. In everyday speech it...
How all kinds of minds have been sabotaged to wrongly gather and process information
1) “Average IQ” isn’t the problem—human cognition is the problem An IQ score near the population average means you’re… normal. It doesn’t mean you’re “bad...
The empty “Jewish World Conspiracy” myth: The fictional group that had no tricks
Classic conspiracy lore tells a story of a small group of jews and a system of jewish helpers which managed to acquire decisive power within...