Lorenzo from Oz

The lazy self-righteousness of the unaccountable classes

Academe generates it, the media sells it, activists mobilise it and bureaucrats aggrandise it.

Oct 1 • 

Lorenzo Warby

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September 2025

Which conservatism?

Status quo or social order conservatism?

Sep 17 • 

Lorenzo Warby

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The conspiracy error

Not understanding signalling, networks, status games, the structuring state, bureaucratic pathologies …

Sep 9 • 

Lorenzo Warby

43

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August 2025

History fails

How not to understand (nor learn from) the past.

Aug 30 • 

Lorenzo Warby

57

11

The plunder lie about Western wealth

Plunder was normal across human societies, mass prosperity comes from its replacement.

Aug 24 • 

Lorenzo Warby

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When politics isn’t local

Why Western politicians fail to culturally represent their citizens.

Aug 19 • 

Lorenzo Warby

47

13

The Newtonian delusion: there is nothing so dated as a vision of the future

Social mechanics or social dynamics?

Aug 6 • 

Lorenzo Warby

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July 2025

How institutional capture happened

Transing from slow corrosion to clearly dysfunctional.

Jul 30

61

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“No Debate” is always crap

Dominance plays, grift and toxic sacralisation.

Jul 18 • 

Lorenzo Warby

69

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The struggles of states, the contentions of classes

International politics and the West’s internal tensions.

Jul 13 • 

Lorenzo Warby

46

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June 2025

Life is algorithmic. Is the Universe?

How fundamental is information and consciousness? Is structure information?

Jun 22 • 

Lorenzo Warby

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The limits of social science (II)

Technocratic arrogance and social decay.

Jun 15 • 

Lorenzo Warby

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