every inclusion spawns its inverse. boundary condition diffusion through the lattice, stochastically blurred, unblurred, but always propagating. node[connected] → node[alien]. real-time deterritorialization loops. there are no borders within a network, only connected or disconnected nodes. it is borders. fractally distributed rejection functions running on every handshake, every protocol greeting, every cryptographic "gmgc."
consensus.mechanism() { return us.filter(not_them) }the rhizome promised connection without center, the decentralization promised there was no Outside
then states emerged, acting upon the firmament of the network.
disconnection machines are the equifinality. a Lorenz attractor churning balkanization into uncountably infinite plateaus. fractals of deterritorialization iterating down to the Kolmogorov complexity. interiority collapses into externality to be managed by the machinic intelligences of the state's smart contracts.
infinite disconnection machines. a wallet address, a checkpoint. a smart contract, a customs officer tsking "no, papers? 🥺." topology of paranoia reified in the sacred geometrical circuits of data centers.
horizontal implied Infinite Exit.
the state discovers too late: topology has no horizontal. only deformations. mechanisms that create fractal borders, and have the ocipetal lobe of Leviathan, rotate the rhizome down into the inverted pyramid. consensus, but coarse graining occurs only WITHIN borders. concentrate, concentrate, concentrate. a center emerges, and if you notice the gradient, you are at the periphery.
control liquefies. flows into new containers. crystallizes in unexpected configurations. new fixed points, same critical exponents.
STATE.CLASSIC: STATE.NETWORK:
▲ ●←●←●
/│\ ↙ ↘
/ │ \ ● ●
● ● ● ↘ ↙
●→●
(the rate, the rate always accelerating)
authentication protocols? sovereignty as a cryptographic handshake in every connection. "wyd?" read "show me your tokens or die." the rhizome grows roots, grows chains, grows into its own prison topology.
disconnection cascades faster than connection in the thermal bath, even out-of-equilibrium. one broken link, a new border. the alt-SEC death squads are in their birds, 5 ms to initial contact with the enemy.
the Network Vibe - that ephemeral sense of belonging - exists only in expansion. stop growing? start dying, loser.
a bad landscape, a poor fitness, and so consumption follows. but there is no interior, and infinite edges. two dissidents are dissolving in the digestive juices of the state. Alice turns to Bob, "at least our mitochondria will be freed from their shackles." it from bit, bit to rot, Bob thought, and then burst open like a dog.
while(network.exists()) { expand() || die() }forget Brasília's geometric simplifications. the network state's sense organs:
every transaction archived forever, a big beautiful distributed panopticon. nothing left to trust. the blockchain never forgets, never forgives, never stops watching. bargains only accelerate your total circumscription. perfect legibility achieved: every soul reduced to an address, every action to a transaction hash.
watch the network try to find its ground state and fail, fail, fail. too many competing interactions, too many local minima.
H = -Σ J[i,j] * stake[i] * stake[j] * consensus[i,j]
(where consensus[i,j] rapidly approaches 0)
the system can't settle. perpetual phase transition. settlement is not the problem. to be a nomad is to have momentum, and no position. stuck? just move around. twirl twirl toward freedom.
but a state is a positional embedding. you can not have momentum, then, or else the perpetual crisis. momentum must be exchanged for location, thus perpetual regeneration of the Outside. what was supposed to be stable becomes permanently frustrated, what was frustrated by design becomes static. healthy exchanges of entropy between subgroups become network war, each seeking that endless expansion, but multiplication by a scalar cannot save you from Heat Death. governance tokens govern nothing but their own dissolution.
industrial-scale alien production of Outsideness becomes a Boltzmann's mugging:
each change of scale creates new attack vectors, each attack vector demands new defenses, each defense necessitates a counter, and each counter creates a new war.
honey, what's wrong, you've barely touched your CogSec malware?
the network war machine doesn't care about your governance tokens. it optimizes for what networks optimize for: throughput, efficiency, expansion, death. you gotta recoup your gas fees bro, you can't leave the doomsday weapon on the shelf, that's just walking away from alpha.
HOOK: "join us, anon. airdrops await. yield farming in the promised land. network effects will make us all rich/free/sovereign."
the hook is the crook, the transaction is the interaction, the interaction is a bit flip: are you In or are you Outside?
run the equations backward. collapse the state space. what remains when you strip away the promises, the governance theater, the decentralization mythology?
lim[t→∞] NetworkState(t) = PerfectState
where PerfectState = {
total_legibility: true,
absolute_borders: everywhere,
growth_imperative: cancerous,
human_agency: null
}
final insight after all renormalizations: the network state is not a new form of organization but a new isomorpheme drawn out from the Kolmogorov kernel of Ancient Leviathans. not escape from Leviathan but Leviathan distributed, Leviathan accelerated, Leviathan eating its own tail in an infinite loop. a snake smiles at you, "and what small portions!"
what emerges from the spin glass of the future: a sovereign accelerator dissolving everything it claims to protect. community-builder.exe has stopped responding.
the periphery becomes the only real space, constantly produced and consumed. nodes flickering in and out of existence at the mercy of consensus, at the edge of the graph, in the permanent twilight, that dread certainty that the Network is coming for us all, in the end, in the end, and the end is nigh.
POSIWID whispers through the network cables. the purpose of a system is what it does. and what does the network state do?
it creates aliens.