Patterns · The Machine

The Machine

The System · The Network · The Feed · The False Light

The system. The media. The technology. The blue light that does not call home. The Machine is the engine that drives and amplifies the cultural hypnosis - the infrastructure through which a civilization is told who it is, what to want, what to fear, and what to forget.

11 patterns

Start here

  1. 15 January 2026 Media

    The Reality You're Living In Was Written by Someone Else

    I have a few thoughts I'd like to share about the past week and a half, where we have witnessed a remarkable rampage, where a particular image has been pushed forward before our eyes again and again, until for many it almost began to feel self-evident - yes, nearly inevitable -…

    → Read
  2. 4 October 2025 Censorship

    A Bestiary of Forces That Shape Us - Unseen Until Named

    I have for some time now been inventing - for myself - images and concepts that describe the forces shaping our society, without letting them vanish into abstractions and academic terms. Because in reality we all experience them - every single day - but they appear invisible,…

    → Read
  3. 27 May 2025 Faith

    The Media - and Faith - and How We Ended Up in the Age of Conspiracy

    The Media - and Faith - and how we ended up in the AGE OF CONSPIRACY. … Man orients himself toward what he believes is true. It has always been this way. We have always needed a map of reality. Something we could trust. Something we could align ourselves with. Something that…

    → Read

More patterns

  1. 16 July 2026 Media

    A Priest Wrote to Me Today

    A priest wrote to me today. She had been following me for a while and appreciated much of what I write. But she had heard there was no Human inside it. That it was all written by artificial intelligence, and that it was…
  2. 26 June 2026 Climate

    It Is Warm Today, and Therefore the Screen Is Full of It

    It is warm today, and therefore the screen is full of it. A thousand stories about the same thing, and a weather map glowing so deep red it looks like a notice from the realm of Hades, a colour scale where twenty-six…
  3. 21 June 2026 Censorship

    Here is a headline that looks perfectly peaceful at first

    Here is a headline that looks perfectly peaceful at first. Until you read it one more time. Let me unpack it. A government wants to force social platforms to give its own state media priority. That is.
  4. 18 June 2026 Media

    The Pattern Written Clearly

    The pattern written clearly. Notice how easy it is to see when it's them. A murderous regime that for months has put a paid minority on the streets and called it "the people", and which now, when it suits them better,…
  5. 13 June 2026 Censorship

    We Regulated a Future We Never Built Ourselves

    I work with artificial intelligence every single day, and not in one lane, but down through nearly everything I do. It ideates with me and against me, analyses, drafts, refines and elaborates, finds the hole in a line…
  6. 8 June 2026 Climate

    A Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Sits in the Metro with a Piece of Cardboard She Has Painted

    There's a thirteen-year-old girl sitting in the metro with a piece of cardboard she's painted with marker. She has written that she is too young to vote on her own future. You can picture it.
  7. 2 June 2026 Western Civilisation

    Look at the street for a moment, before we look at the boxes

    Look at the street for a moment, before we look at the boxes. The buildings behind were raised by people who assumed someone would inherit it, and therefore they took care - they aligned the windows in rhythm, hung the…
  8. 26 May 2026 Censorship

    When the Infrastructure Can No Longer Hold What Cannot Be Said

    There is a pattern in the way many prominent voices are talking about AI right now, and it is not the pattern they believe they are showing. On the surface it is about jobs, about the economy, about change moving too…
Cross to another territory
← All territories