What happens when the Whale beaches itself?
'This is the one I spoke about when I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’
its bones may bleach into landmarks, its oil light a shrine, its story a covenant: that even the colossus kneels to the small gods of sand and hand
So when we say “every god is a god of human cooperation,” the limiting case is the God of Nash: the reified guarantee that cooperation can persist only at fixed points where no player’s temptation to defect has any oxygen left.
permission to be delusional in public.
The Allais paradox demonstrates that individuals rarely make rational decisions consistently when required to do so immediately.
coded extraction
In other words, a lot of people:
The Revelation:
"Wait, you're not trying to extract resources from me. You're not emotionally unavailable. You're just... a person. With hopes and fears and weird thoughts. And I... actually like you."
Every generation: Young people finding ways to connect authentically despite whatever moral panic adults are having
Master Signifier - empty but powerful, organizing an entire discourse around it.
