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Musings on Geopolitics and Power
Through thought provoking articles, essays, and reflections, Richard shares his visionary insights, challenging us to reimagine the world we live in. This archive brings Richard's public writing back onto his own domain while preserving the original Substack and Patreon networks.
The Covenant That Wasn't There
On the pattern no constitution prevents
The Wrong Question
Answers We Find When We Ask The Wrong Questions
The Arithmetic of Grief
How Human Attention Actually Works
What Technology is For
The Palantir Manifesto and the Machinery
Time to Quit School?
Real Education for a Regenerative Future
Same God. Same Logic
Beginning where the discomfort is greatest
Power evolving
The Disruption of Democracy from Techno-Feudalism
Beyond the Illusion of Unity
Why Shared Purpose Matters More Than Amity
Amnesia's Grip in the "Here and Now"
Human Psyche in the Age of Industrial Economism
The Rules Were Never The Point
On laws of war and the business model they protect
The Empire That Ate Itself
On the long collapse of American hegemony
From Records to Rights
How Data Systems Recode Human Possibility
When Famine Becomes Method
Engineered Starvation and International Law
When Truth Becomes Casualty
The Risks of Moral Certainty in an Age of Misinformation
Beyond the Breaking Point
Reimagining a Future Beyond Capitalism
The Idea That Didn't Need To Win
The agenda that makes argument irrelevant
The Idea That Couldn't Be Forgiven
Why truth provokes outrage, and has always done so
War on the Rocks
The War That Consumes Its Own Intelligence
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