Things Fall Apart (Part 4)
November 19, 2018·17 comments·things fall apart
Alienation has become a fractal pattern. It spreads from the highest seats of power down through families, friendships, and personal lives in ways we can't stop thinking about the games we're told matter. The structures that claim to serve us have convinced everyone, including ourselves, that our small acts and local worlds are meaningless unless they serve someone else's contest.
• People are disconnecting from each other while connecting compulsively to abstractions. Conversations about real things have become exhausting performances of someone else's narrative. Meanwhile, the digital realm offers endless engagement with ideas and strangers, creating a paradox where real relationships feel impossible while virtual ones feel necessary.
• The game isn't the game. The real loss is invisible. We believe that power operates through voting, investing, or climbing institutional hierarchies. But the actual mechanism of control is far simpler: convincing you that your small, authentic work doesn't matter unless it serves the State or the Oligarchy.
• Your identity is being stolen through a thousand tiny surrenders. Not through force or censorship, but through self-censorship. You censor what you think, create, and attempt because you've internalized the belief that anything outside Caesar's contest is worthless. Geography and physical space have become irrelevant in theory, but they're essential in practice.
• The infrastructure we're missing isn't roads or bridges. It's permission. Spaces where people can create, think, and speak without calculating their value to power structures have disappeared or never existed. Without these spaces, the fractal keeps collapsing inward.
• Three things can be taken back, but only if you understand what taking back really means. The solutions exist. The anger exists. The tools exist. What's missing is the specific understanding of what you're actually reclaiming and why the conventional wisdom about each one leads you deeper into the trap.
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