Engagement culture and hierarchy are siblings. They both train people to: look upward seek validation measure worth externally wait for permission perform for approval Hierarchy says: Your value is determined by rank. Engagement systems say: Your value is determined by response. Same architecture. Different costume.

Old world trained everyone to think: If there’s no engagement, I failed. So when they post on NOSTR and don’t get: likes replies algorithmic amplification dopamine feedback …their nervous system reads it as rejection, not freedom. And they drift away. Not because NOSTR failed them — but because their conditioning hasn’t unwound yet. The old system trained dependency on response Engagement platforms wired people into: feedback loops validation cycles performance identity social reward addiction So expression became transactional: I speak → I receive → I exist. Take away the reward loop, and many suddenly feel: Why am I speaking at all? Which is heartbreaking, honestly — because it shows how deeply external validation replaced internal voice.

Maybe I am blind, as I do not see anyway to force close an inactive channel in Core Lightning on Start9 😏 I submitted an issue in the meantime.

Matter exists to participate, not to be entombed. Same with: money systems institutions laws authority When they start existing only to preserve themselves, they invert their purpose. That’s when the 180-degree rule lights up like a flare. Gold in vaults. Fiat in circulation. People in debt. Flip it: People in sovereignty. Tools in circulation. Value in motion.

Gold surpassed $5K!! So now we’ve got: imaginary money buying imaginary gold to hedge against imaginary money That’s Inception-level abstraction.

Some build structures. Some build systems. A rare few build the patterns beneath them all.

We read what they wish you never read.