Megan J. Robinson

The incentives behind effectively everything we do have been broken by decades of neoliberal thinking, where the idea of a company — an entity created to do a thing in exchange for money —has been drained of all meaning beyond the continued domination and extraction of everything around it, focusing heavily on short-term gains and growth at all cos... See more

the figure of the “ wise fool ”— alternatively, the paradoxical notion that the fool may be wise and that the wise may be foolish — has a long and distin-guished pedigree, not only in the Christian tradition (e.g., the “ fool in Christ ” or the “ fool for Christ ’ s sake ” ) but also in other religions (e.g., the Sufi majzub and the Hindu avadhuta ... See more

Whereas stories and storytellingly thrive only when people pre-serve an appreciation for the past and the future, postmodernity, with the decline of the myth of progress, has lost a sense of history and is fixated on the present. The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally for entertainment, and the future is reduced to being a momen... See more

ogos, particularly as practiced in philosophy, not only transmits the perennial truths of the community to successive generations but also inculcates the love of wisdom by which humans can live the good life.

Mythos, especially in the form of dramatic narratives ex-plaining the origin and operation of the universe and the place of humans within it, is, in the early stages of humanity, a common medium to express the communal fund of wisdom that, together with rituals and ethics, shapes the social reality and is in turn shaped by it.

Also, when context increasingly trumps content in determining value, we need new frameworks for understanding, measuring, and distributing that value. Power gravitates to those who control context. Ultimately, the real battle isn’t about the raw content - it’s about who defines, manipulates, and monetizes the frame .

Digital platforms and AI tools have created an environment where:

1. Information volume overwhelms individual capacity to process details , making simplifying frames more influential


2. Algorithmic curation creates personalized information environments that can reinforce certain ideas while hiding others


3. AI-generated content can rapidly produce and distr

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The Ghibli AI trend is a perfect microcosm:

1. The raw content (images) is easily reproducible and has minimal intrinsic value


2. The context (who shares it, how it's framed, which platforms amplify it) creates the actual economic and social value


3. The creators of the original style (Studio Ghibli) receive some value through "increased interest" while platfo

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this is also a perfect crystallization of how, in our hyper-digital age, it's increasingly the context and framing of information (not the content itself) that drives debates and shapes economic futures. Here, the content of the war plans was practically overshadowed by how they leaked (understandably!) - the wrong platform, the journalist, and the... See more