Where Support No Longer Fuels Growth but Subsidises Dysfunction and Compensates for Someone’s Lack of Performance This article confronts one of the most overlooked realities in leadership, coaching and human development. While the Being Framework is rooted in the principle that human beings are not fixed and are capable of profound transformation, it also recognises that transformation is not universally available at any moment. It requires willingness, coherence, responsibility and the cap...

How Societies Collapse When Scapegoats Replace Modulation This article examines why systems collapse and why it almost never happens because of a single event, leader or foreign power. Using the trajectories of Iraq and Syria as case studies, it shows how societies drift from integrity into disintegration when their contradictions remain unresolved and their capacity to modulate is gradually lost. Drawing on the Systemic Subversion Cycle, first introduced in the 2025 Sustainabilism book as...

Iran: A Governing System Poised Between Renewal and Decline How Shadows, Contradictions and Rigid Governance Have Shaped the Country’s Future – A Being Framework Case Study on the Urgency of Modulation This analysis examines the Islamic Republic’s governing system through an ontological lens rather than a political one. In this context, ontology refers to how a person or a system is being. It captures the deeper qualities that shape how authorities perceive reality, form intentions, ...

How systems reveal their failure long before they fall apart We often imagine collapse as something sudden. A revolution. A currency crash. A breaking point you can point to on a calendar. But systems rarely fall that way. Most begin to unravel long before anyone notices. They lose their rhythm, their clarity and their ability to correct themselves. Their descent is slow, almost invisible, until it becomes irreversible. This article explores why that happens. It explains how human systems ...

A Phenomenology of Recurrence and Why Revolution Fails to Become Transformation: An Inquiry with Iran as an Illustrative Case This article explores a deeper pattern that explains why revolutions keep returning and why real change so often fails to take root. Instead of focusing only on politics or historical events, it examines what happens to societies when their systems begin to break down and when people’s ways of making sense of the world become distorted. Using Iran as a case study, it...

Malignant Narcissism, Leadership, Power, Collective Psychosis and the Systems We Sustain Together Across nations, ideologies, and political systems, the same pattern keeps repeating. Leaders emerge who are unstable, inauthentic, and unaccountable. They polarise, provoke, distort reality, and govern through their shadows. They are protested, condemned, and yet continuously sustained. This is not the failure of the system. This is the system we all sustain in one way or another. Rather th...

Why Conventional Authenticity Is Mistaken for Reality Alignment, How Sincere Systems Drift into Shadow and Misery and the Three Archetypal Responses That Determine Sustainability This article reframes sustainability as an ontological condition rather than a technical, political, or environmental objective. It argues that systems become unsustainable not primarily through corruption or bad faith, but through a deeper epistemic failure: conviction without reflexivity. Under these conditions, sy...

How fear captures the nervous system and reshapes governance and society. This article examines how fear and anxiety operate not merely as psychological states but as existential moods that shape how individuals and societies encounter reality. Drawing on the Being Framework, the Meta-content Discourse, and the Nested Theory of Sense Making, it explores how unexamined relationships with fear and anxiety migrate from pre-verbal, somatic experience into narrative, law, and governance. Using ...

Authority, Compliance, Conformity and Adult Agency This article uses the archetype of Neverland to explore a mode of being in which growth is indefinitely postponed while authority quietly consolidates. Moving beyond childhood fantasy, Neverland is reframed as a psychological and ontological condition where time is suspended, consequence is deferred, and systems are structured to preserve motion without maturation. Through a phenomenological reading of Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, Tinker Bell...

Why ESG, Global Institutions, and Asset Managers Are Less Conspiratorial and More Systemic Than We Admit This article offers a pre-ideological inquiry into ESG, global institutions, and the narratives that surround them, not as conspiracies or moral projects, but as emergent products of collective sense-making. Drawing on the Metacontent Discourse, the Being Framework, and the critique developed in Sustainabilism, it examines how dominant metacontent, collective shadow, and inauthenticity giv...

How Force Accelerates Disobedience This article examines the gradual decay of authority when law, leadership, or governance becomes dependent on force rather than meaning. Drawing on patterns observed in highly coercive systems, it argues that order does not function through compulsion. Force remains effective only while authority retains symbolic and moral legitimacy. The analysis traces a clear arc. Authority begins as a meaning-bearing structure that people internalise. As that meaning ...

Recreational Hunting: Ecological Responsibility, Hobby or ‘Moralised’ Reaction This article examines recreational hunting in Australia as a case study in sense-making, authenticity, and sustainability. Drawing on the Metacontent Discourse and the Nested Theory of Sense-Making, it analyses how positions on complex environmental issues are formed, and how incomplete conceptions of reality can harden into ethical certainty while producing systemic harm. The discussion situates recreationa...