25m, spoken audio on the matter of how a recent event demonstrates the living reality of this living being. #Violence, #Toxic Stress, #TraumaResponse, and the fact of long-lasting aftereffects, et al.
Understanding Cycles of Systemic Violence, Supremacist Ideology, and Ecological Crisis:
This paper explores the interconnected, recurrent global patterns of systemic violence against marginalized outgroups. Rooted in historical legacies of eugenics, white supremacy, and transgenerational trauma, these cycles are amplified by economic inequality, misinformation ecosystems, legal and institutional frameworks, psychological identity dynamics, and ecological crises. Recognizing these patterns is essential for approaches that promote justice, sustainable coexistence, and planetary survival.
Systems Analysis: Our Present Moment (global/usa)
35m contextually focused thoughts on this moment and the most important thing anyone wanting humanity to survive it really need to start putting into practice (and why).
Patterns & Paradoxes #morningthoughts
59:59m audio, untranscribed, “Patterns & Paradoxes” #MorningThoughts
The Bio-Social Loop: How Culture & Economy Engrave Hate in Our DNA
The accelerating crisis of fascism, racism, and “dehumanizing” behaviors is more than a product of conscious prejudice or institutional design—it is an emergent, biologically mediated epidemic produced by the interplay of cultural, economic, and societal structures with the human genome and neurobiology (Stringhini et al., 2022; Krieger et al., 2022; Kuzawa & Sweet, 2021). New research in neuroscience and social epigenetics demonstrates that these structural forces shape us at the molecular level, perpetuating patterns of aggression, exclusion, and social unraveling that threaten collective stability (Kuzawa & Sweet, 2021; Krieger et al., 2022).
A Worthy Labor
There is a simple and compelling truth established by the sciences: universal reality is a system of systems, and all life within it exists only in relationship and interdependence with its surroundings. This conclusion is not just philosophical speculation; it is supported by disciplines such as physics, biology, and complex systems theory. Denying this reality has contributed directly to human suffering, social turmoil, and ecological crises, which continue to threaten our collective future. The observable universe, from subatomic particles to galaxies and biospheres, is characterized by nested systems that interact and rely on each other. No organism survives in isolation. […]
The Strength of Weak Ties Across Disciplines: Connectivity, Plasticity, Novelty, & the Imperative for Global Solutions
The sociological theory of weak ties, introduced by Mark Granovetter in 1973, reveals that infrequent, low-intensity social connections act as vital bridges that link otherwise disconnected social groups. These weak ties facilitate the flow of novel information, resources, and opportunities, supporting innovation and adaptability within social networks (Granovetter, 1973). Over time, this foundational insight has found compelling parallels across disciplines including technology, neuroscience, quantum physics, organic chemistry, machine learning, and cloud computing. These interdisciplinary connections expose shared principles of connectivity, plasticity, and novelty underpinning both natural and human-created complex systems.
Human Cognitive Diversity as Adaptive Radiation: Genomic and Neurodivergent Pathways to Species Dominance
Rapid radiations, in which bursts of diversification yield disproportionate contributions to extant biodiversity, underlie most of the known diversity of life (Wiens & Moen, 2025). This principle holds across clades of animals, plants, fungi, and protists. We argue that a parallel process manifests in humans: our global dominance as an apex mammalian species derives from rapid internal diversification of cognition, behavior, and social interaction styles. Drawing on evolutionary genomics, epigenetics, and neuroscience, we propose that neurodiversity—including autism and related neurodivergent profiles—constitutes an adaptive radiation within a single species, sustaining variation that enables resilience, innovation, and ecological mastery. We synthesize evolutionary biology with human neuroscience to suggest that the same mechanisms responsible for generating flowering plant and arthropod hyperdiversity also operate, at a psychological and genomic scale, in Homo sapiens.