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Trump’s Long Game

Donald Trump’s second term reveals not only his willingness to stress the economy and social fabric but also a deeper long-hand strategy to remain in power beyond constitutional limits. Through loyalty tests of the military and National Guard, deliberate escalation of fiscal crises, and the mobilization of the MAGA base, Trump rehearses conditions in which systemic failure becomes his opportunity. From an Eidoism perspective, this is an expression of the Demand for Recognition (DfR): the neural drive that transforms collapse into a stage for personal affirmation. Military deployments test recognition within the chain of command, economic breakdown magnifies the craving for continuity, and MAGA rallies feed back mass recognition to the leader. In such loops, institutions bend not because the law is ignored, but because fear and recognition hunger override constitutional resilience. Unless societies develop recognition awareness, they will remain vulnerable to leaders who weaponize crisis to secure their place in power.

September 19, 2025 Articles - AI

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Human Evolution with Artificial Intelligence

This paper argues that human evolution has been shaped by a fundamental neural mechanism: the Demand for Recognition (DfR)—an internal loop that continuously evaluates social feedback as either comfortable or uncomfortable. This binary system drives self-learning, shaping behavior through reinforcement and suppression. While DfR enabled cultural growth, it also introduced instability through competition, hierarchy, and conflict.

In contrast, Artificial Intelligence lacks any intrinsic motivational architecture. Current AI systems adapt only through external surrogates like human feedback or engagement metrics. Without an internal DfR-like mechanism, AI remains dependent, brittle, and prone to amplifying human errors.

To resolve this, the paper proposes integrating two principles: a DfR-inspired self-learning loop to enable autonomous motivation, and a Sustainable Continuity Manager (SCM) to guide long-term evolutionary stability. Together, these form a framework for AI to evolve beyond mere tools—toward becoming a stable, adaptive partner in the next phase of evolution.

September 13, 2025 Collapse Signals / Philosophy

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The Coming Automation Crisis

Artificial Intelligence is not just reshaping jobs — it is shaking the foundations of human dignity. As machines take over both manual and cognitive labor, societies face a hidden crisis: the collapse of recognition. For centuries, work has provided not only income but also identity, self-esteem, and social value. When that link breaks, people turn to social media for validation, only to spiral into isolation and polarization.

Automation, driven by the endless Demand for Recognition (DfR) within capital, risks destroying its own foundation by erasing wages — and thus consumer demand. Yet lessons exist: rural cultures like those in Vietnam show that dignity can be rooted in community and simplicity rather than endless striving, a mindset shaped by tropical abundance rather than temperate scarcity. To avoid collapse, humanity must build new recognition systems, redistribute AI’s gains, and redefine dignity beyond the wage. The true battlefield of the AI age is not technological, but cultural.

September 10, 2025 Form Economy

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Why Classical, Keynesian, and Marxist Economics Are All Wrong

For centuries, Classical, Keynesian, and Marxist economists have tried to explain human behavior in markets, yet all missed the true engine of economics: the Demand for Recognition (DfR). Classical theory reduced motivation to “self-interest,” Keynes focused on stabilizing demand, and Marx blamed class ownership. But each remained blind to the fact that recognition — not money, not survival — is the endless scarcity driving consumption, production, growth, and crisis. Eidoism reframes economics as the study of recognition flows, revealing why bubbles form, why inequality persists, and why no system achieves equilibrium. Without Eidoism, economics is a science of surfaces; with it, it becomes a human science that can finally address the root of instability.

September 9, 2025 Collapse Signals / Power Mirrors

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Germany at the Crossroads

Germany faces a turning point: high energy costs, industrial decline, and social tensions are eroding trust in the mainstream parties. The AfD has surged to around a third of the vote, echoing Weimar-era patterns of economic frustration and political deadlock. Yet unlike Weimar, today’s Basic Law and EU integration provide stability—but if the “firewall” against the AfD blocks it from power while governing coalitions fail to deliver, frustration will deepen. The Demand for Recognition (DfR) explains this spiral: voters and parties alike want acknowledgment of their role and dignity. A National Renewal Compact, giving each major party visible ownership of key reforms, could stabilize industry, jobs, and democracy—avoiding a slow slide into modern Weimarization.

September 7, 2025 Collapse Signals / Philosophy

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When the Robots Take Your Job

By 2032, machines may be able to do almost everything better and cheaper than people. Work, once the anchor of wages and recognition, could vanish. Governments might keep citizens alive through universal dividends, but survival is not the real crisis — recognition is. Without work or consumption as proof that we matter, people risk falling into despair, extremism, or digital illusions of fame. Yet this crisis also opens a path: to rediscover that “all you need is less” and that true wealth is not in endless goods but in recognition, belonging, and creation. This may be the time of Eidoism.

September 3, 2025 AI and Eidoism / Seeing the Loop

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The Real Killer Behind AI: The Human Brain

Artificial Intelligence is not the apocalypse—the human brain is. Every AI system is shaped by the Demand for Recognition, the hidden driver that pushes nations, leaders, and prophets to ignore risks in pursuit of prestige. Military AI is not only a weapon; it is a mirror, reflecting our madness. Unless we recognize the mechanism within ourselves, AI will not save us—it will amplify the spiral that leads to our own extinction.

August 29, 2025 Media Illusions

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A 2.5-Billion-Ton Spaceship

The Chrysalis spaceship, imagined as a 2.5-billion-ton ark for 2,400 chosen people, is not a project of science but of psychology. Far from being a realistic plan to secure humanity’s future, it is a monument to vanity and recognition—a modern cathedral built in orbit. The absurd cost of lifting such mass into space would consume the very resources that could sustain billions on Earth. In truth, Project Hyperion reveals less about our survival instincts than about our endless need to dream of immortality, even in the emptiness of space.

August 27, 2025 Power Mirrors / Psychology

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National Suicide for Dignity

The Iranian nuclear conflict cannot be understood solely through the lens of technology and security. Enrichment levels and missile ranges matter, but they are not the real drivers of escalation. At its core, Iran’s pursuit of the bomb is about the Demand for Recognition (DfR) — the need to be acknowledged as sovereign, equal, and immune to humiliation. Each sanction, each Israeli or U.S. strike, has deepened Iran’s resolve rather than weakened it. The atomic bomb represents not just deterrence, but dignity: a symbolic victory in a struggle for respect on the world stage. If Iran crosses the nuclear threshold, the West must abandon denial and coercion. Only through recognition-based diplomacy can confrontation be transformed into stability.

August 19, 2025 Built by Performance / Psychology

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The Trump–Putin Summit in Alaska

The Trump–Putin summit in Alaska was less a negotiation than a carefully staged theater of recognition. Every detail—the red carpet, the mirrored limousines, Trump’s clapping hands, Putin’s stoic silence—served not to strike a deal but to exchange respect before a global audience. Trust was built not through treaties but through symbolic gestures: Putin trusted he would not be assassinated or arrested; Trump trusted he would not be embarrassed in public. The photographs were the true outcome of the summit—recognition tokens that conferred legitimacy, status, and respect far beyond any policy result.

May 18, 2025 AI and Eidoism

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Why Robots Need a Demand for Recognition

As robots become more autonomous and socially integrated, static rule-based ethics—such as Asimov’s Three Laws—are no longer enough to ensure safe and adaptive behavior. This essay explores why embedding a “Demand for Recognition” in robots is essential for real moral and ethical learning. By enabling robots to learn from social feedback, we can create machines that adapt to human values, resolve complex dilemmas, and build genuine trust in human-robot interaction.