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Hello, I hope this note finds you well. As you may know, I've been settling into the new weblog at Mindwars-Ghosted.com, It's been three months now and I'm truly grateful to have you along for the ride. Your continued readership means a
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Following on from Part 3, losing faith in the West as a benevolent force was just the start of a journey of unwinding and re-examining past understandings of the shape of the world and events we have been taught. As they say, “He who writes history makes history” and,
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My first real awakening—that the world was not as orderly or benevolent as I had been taught—came not from books or distant headlines, but from living inside a place that proudly called itself a young democracy while quietly demonstrating what that word could mean under firm hands. In
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In my Mindwars article “Are System-Trusting Beliefs Harmless?”, I posed a thought experiment—a parody of a serious psychological study on conspiracy theories, in which academics use the Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire (CMQ) to argue that significant harms stem from those who believe in conspiracy theories. I reverse the question:
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This post marks a deliberate shift in direction. For the past year, my weblog (at Substack and now at Ghost) has moved through distinct phases: beginning with an exploration of “estrangement ideology,” then transitioning into the Mindwars and Geopolitika series. This work extended to recount my understanding how global societies
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Many thanks to everyone who has supported my work on Substack this year under Journeys by the Styx and welcome to everyone who has come across to the new weblog Mindwars Ghosted. It has been a journey since I started writing on the topic of Estrangement Ideology only 12 months
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Dear readers, It’s been a busy couple of weeks since Ursula Edgington and I wrapped the “George and the Philanthropath” series. Since then, apart from moving to Ghost.io, I’ve been rebuilding the Ai based narrative deconstruction engine that powers the analysis underlying many of my articles. This
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Two authors dismantle the biomedical consensus not by disagreement, but by proving its design is containment, not discovery.
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A cautionary look at Moorcock’s far-future fantasia as a mirror of elite dreams for immortality, meaninglessness, and escape from the human condition.
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To see the surface clearly is to begin noticing what moves beneath it. Estrangement was the first crossing. Now the task is to chart the currents.
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A grand production of illusion and control—where power hides behind velvet curtains and the crowd cheers for a script they never wrote.