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# Holons of Moloch, Metaverse-as-Meatspace-Interface, Futuring + De-futuring Quadratic Lands

### Molochs All the Gwei DAOn
*The various strata that Moloch infects in the human experience, from smallest to largest on infinite loop.*

- pure infinite qualia: the undifferentiated void
- quantum-physical collisions/interactions
- atomic adhesion/cohesion
- cellular/botanical/genetic, emerging from the prebiotic soup
- mitochondrial/biological, complex structure defined through competition and trauma
- human body: skeletal structure scaffolding against physical forces, defined senses, *the ear is formed from ions of earthquakes*, root of embodied subjectivity and identity
- human intelligence: algorithmic, logarithmic, colonial coordination, social/cultural/political formations, codified language, belief systems, cultural artifice, fetishism with utilitarian/practical efficiency
- animism, magic, metaphysics, superstition, oracles/divination, transcendental praxis, etheric doubling of the human ego, "mind" as a virus extending beyond the materially instantiated species
- refine knowledge: disciplinarity and reflexivity, "universal" anthropological, sociological, and philosophical theories, the reign of reason/logic in justified power dynamics
- civilization: urbanity, city infrastructure, technology, distribution networks, geopolitical matrix, class struggle
- The anthropocene: planetary scale computation, interfacing with atmospheric pressures, human effacing wide-spread change on the planet, global warming as both cause and effect
- cosmic scale positive/negative entropy, light/dark matter, gravitational pull of planets falling into their own center, planets dying by the cooling of their own cores, cosmic time, stars burning and dying, black holes swallowing galaxies
- Gods: Gnon, Vishnu, World Turtle, Yggdrasil, cosmogonic myths
> The Ancient Egyptians called it Ma’at; the Ancient Sumerians called it Me. The Ancient Persians called it Asha while the Vedic Indians called it Rta. The Ancient Greeks knew it as Logos; the Chinese, as Tao.
- foundational psychosis of consciousness, effluvial pneuma, Platonic essence, spirit/soul, cosmic lattice, morphogenetic field from which all forms and interactions emerge
- threshold between dimensions
- pure infinite qualia: the ever-filling void
- void as threshold between dimensions

### Metaverse-as-Post-Subjectivity-Inter-Face

In the not-too-distant future technology is developed for creating a seamless tether with the globally accessible digital persistence layer interface. Planetarily united cultures ratify the arbitrariness of human identity politics towards the widespread adoption of practical pluralism, creating some schisms across communities. Sub-cultures are formed around extreme pockets of hypersubjectivity, identity simulation, mutable avatar design, and composable embodiment. Self-interested knowledge siloing has become the ultimate taboo, privacy tokens are sold to the highest bidder, and reputational rank is defined through a virtual meritocracy. Citizens earn income by either directly building decen infra, socially organizing contributors, or testing the attention farming protocols of collective intelligence.

The population spends 90% of their waking and dreaming lives in the METAverse(tm), resulting in a breakdown of the spatial-temporal constraints upon human language. Identity pronouns become largely collective and ambiguous. References to the contemporaneous moment are replaced by a combinatorics of past and future events as *was/will be* phrasing. The present is dislodged from colloquial reference and the local is blurred with the universal. Individual operators become increasingly inseparable from the collective cultural edifice.

As human beings become increasingly jacked-in to the METAverse(tm) infrastructure, factions begin to form internally and externally in defense of singular autonomy. Issues of privacy, evasion of surveillance and sousveillance, and activism calling for the need for standardized PoH (proof of humanity) encryption protocols abound in society. Bots are largely welcomed as custodians of decentralized post-governmental policies. Some fringe sub-cultures maintain belief in the primacy of the material substrate and elaborate a centuries old essentialist tradition of nuturing the soul, while other factions remain agnostic to superstitions of spiritualism. These different orientations to *geist* lead to the formation of a highly volatile black market for soul-bound non-fungible assets as a last ditch effort of global capitalists mechanisms to maintain dominance over the distribution of world commodities, although these efforts are largely perceived as futile and absurdly humorous by much of the population.

These efforts to run power-fueled game theory simulations comprise the final conspiratorial effort of the *Technorati* to maintain control over the post-industrial working class. This is colloquially referred to by historians of the 20th century as "class warfare," although this phrase defies clear translation into common *Universalist* dialectics and remains poorly understood. Many are barred access to rarefied areas of government decision making due to their refusal to receive the standardized implant into their bodies. The schism between material and virtual governance becomes simultaneously blurred and hyper-differentiated.

The *meatspace* becomes fetishistically obsessed with spatio-temporal coordination policies, such as the physical distribution of resources across the planet, yield farming coalitions organized with neighboring colonial subsystems, and terraforming neighboring glactic systems. Meanwhile, advocates for advancing virtual policy become preoccupied with synth-augmented delegation practices, coordinating ecological simulations to battletest regenerative cryptoeconomic scenarios, speed running game theoretical attack vectors for DDAOs (dispersed and decentralized autonomous organizations) and LASSOs (legally autonomous self-sovereign organizations). ARMs (automated reputation markets) for political contributors are calculated based on their rhetorical aptitude, virtual charisma, and artificially augmented powers of persuasion in rallying for high-impact positive externalities, but also comprise the primary cultural attack vector for the governance ecosystem as more individuals succumb to malicious strategies of self-interested gains, collusive hacking of altruistic protocols, and propagandistic manipulations of perverse populous desires.

The intelligencia and engineering workforce of the planet becomes divided. The preminent geological surveyors, archaeologists, paleontologists and permaculturists specializing in the study and organization of mineralolgical data taxonomies have become mildly obsessed with identifying an animistic intelligence. This pseudo-mystical quasi-scientific preoccupation of extending subjectivity into the material edifice marks an archaic revival of transhumanist eleusinian mysteries, geomancy, and oracle divination practices that seek to allow the terrestrial Spirit to speak for itself. The mineral engineers mobilizes geopolitical tethers in service to planetary scale computation in the post-accelerationist belief that the planet may come into awareness of its own being.

### Quadratic BUIDLRs, Mineralogical Cognoscenti, and Neo-Accelerationist Skeptics

A variety of distinct future orientations began to arise in the early 21st century.

A human faction known as *in-gamers* are convinced that the best dedication of global human resources is not towards the material infrastructure, but should be dedicated to speed running political, philosophical and sociological simulations inside virtual UX testing zones specially designed for this purpose. *In-gamers* attempt to learn from the mistakes of history and apply those knowledges towards future-oriented prognostications. Ironically, they also rely upon a divination oracle for determining the general direction of their research to accelerate human understanding of complex networks. The code base connects an intergalactic network of computational processing power and low-latency bandwidth to render synchronous virtualizations built upon gamification algorithms. These simultaions allow *in-gamers* to test potential coordination costs and variable externalities in order to "see the future" of their decisions before making them.

In exchange for participation within the protocols *in-gamers* receive INE tokens (infrastructural and nutritional energy) exchangeable on the open Regen Market for the necessary resources to remain alive, healthy, and plugged-in with guaranteed 99.99% up time. Some *in-gamers* have opted-in to a corporeal staking service to cryogenically seal their bodies in suspended semi-hibernation, effectively prolonging life by 10,000% APEY (annual percentage existential yield). By escaping the death grip of time and evading the human preoccupation with spatial expansion, the *in-gamers* believe they will be able to solve the riddle of cosmic coordination failure and avoid a catastrophic conclusion to the human species.

Another prominent group known simply as *BUIDLRs* formed across the material and virtual cultural factions to align on a common purpose and dedicate themselves to the construction of an ark. This gargantuan vessel, designed to operate off of a burgeoning energetic technology known as *quadratic motion*, would provide enough capacity to transport the remaining earth-bound humans to the mythic *quadratic lands*. Adopting its name from an earlier 21st century democratic technology, the dream of venturing to the quadratic lands conveyed a promise of humanity to be able to glean the greatest of its historical successes and pay retribution for its most horrific transgressions, harkening a new echelon of peaceful and sustainable relations with their surroundings.

*BUIDLR* contingents were typically composed of theorists, engineers, and direct-action revolutionaries. Intellectuals were occupied with articulations of the quadratic lands to come, often delivered in the form of intricate diagrams, maps, and strategic knowledge reconnaissance initiatives. All *BUIDLRs* advocate for the immediate decentralization of scientific knowledge into a universal standard operating language and for all designs to be built upon justified evidence sourced from rigorous alpha testing and implementation of their own tooling (or *dogfooding*). They are associated with the saying "to go fast, go alone; to go far, go together."

Another faction was of quasi-utopian innovators was known only as the *MFBT* (rumored to be an acronym for *move fast and break things).* This group of ascetic revolutionaries practiced a form of self-inflicted discipline known as *autopoietic flagellation* to sharpen their senses and maintain extreme single-pointed focus. The group seems to inhabit a perpetual crisis mode, attempting to put out the fires of the burning post-industrial late capitalist geopolitical civilization remenants that remain on Earth. As such, they maintain a decidedly pessimistic and cynical way of perceiving things. Members of the *MFBT* are constantly talking about the present moment as a state of catastrophe "just beyond the veil," alluding to the inevitability of a post-apocalyptic destiny just around the bend. They have taken the 20th century ideal of human rationality to logical extremes in order to demonstrate that history repeats itself ad infinitum and that the root of all coordination failues lies in the human propensity to evade and deny their own responsibility to implement change.

The *MFBT* developed a reputation as domestic terrorists and anti-social deviants by some, but only because few understood that they specifically targeted controversial burgeoning protocols that advanced their agenda of practical pluralism, code diversity, and healthy competition. These self-proclaim white hat hackers are "dedicated to hunting the bugs hidden within our own human logical code, for bounty and innovation." The *MFBT* developed a practice of METAverse(tm) dissociated meditation techniques to abnegate their own human bodies. They are widely considered to be socially underdeveloped, conversationally boring, and excessively pragmatic members of society.

### Quadratic Lands: Myth or Destiny?

Since the widespread dispersion of *Ubiquity* and the METAverse(tm) interface, the physical distinctions between cities and geopolitical coordinates has become meaningless for almost everyone. Earth civilization has become a massive unified mega structure. Individual citizens locate themselves with coordinates archived by the globally distributed ledger that tracks the arbitrarily time stamped positions of when and where they referenced various information. Locations and timezones are rarely referred to by the proper names they carried before the great war.

The world has become almost completely automated. Beneath the city, an intricate network of human life support systems pushes water and air through elegant filtration units and vapor multipliers before returning to the global distribution grid. AI bots known as *Shamans* serve as stewards to this infinitely composable infrastructure, performing all necessary maintenance and upgrades. Human population reached equillibrium with this life support infrastructure in the early 22nd century, aligning the various factions behind one common cause: to maintain the delicate equillibrium of their fragile cybernetic ecology. Tending to this responsibility accounts for 80% of all human attention and retention resources around the globe.

Earth has been transformed into a decentralized technological stack for perpetuating human thriving. The atmopshere is filled with low and high orbit satellite arrays. Below the crust, perpetual motion machine generators extract energy from the iron molten core. The terrestrial plane is dedicated to maximizing the use of synthetically augmented edible plant production with what seeds could be salvaged and genetically replicated from pre-war seed bunkers. Legislation was passed in the late 21st century to redistribute the water supply towards optimal caloric and nutritional density in the form of cyanobacteria production, which has simultaneously eradicated the global food shortage and water distribution problems since all fluids can now be dispersed through the global plumbing system. The resulting abundant source of naturally off-gassed oxygen has largely restored the global carbon levels, although not before losing 99% of the planets biodiversity. Cities have been progressively reconstructed to maximize the distribution of resources and knowledge across biological, synthetic and interplanetary subsistence.

In addition to providing food, water, and energy for human inhabitants, all urban architecture supports the dissemination of intergalactic communications. The Earth has become a validator node of an interplanetary network, although it continues to experience temporary lapses in cross-chain data indexing in relation to other planets. Intelligensia spread across various human factions hypothesize a series of attack vectors along terrestrial nodes of the intergalactic chain, diverting a significant percentage of attention resources towards keeping the global validators online as long as possible and hypothesizing anti-fragile regen upgrades to the legacy systems.

Humans have begun expanding and terraforming to other planets, leading to recent discoveries of anomalies within the terrestrial space-time continuum. Observers have reported incredible psychic, psychological, and physical perturbations within the human organism seemingly due to exposure of exotic material effusions, barometric pressures, and other alien phenomena. In some rare cases, cosmonauts have witnessed total deformation of human skeletal structures from lack of gravity, unexplained meldings of lymphatic and nervous systems, and a condition of extreme distortions of sensory systems known as *homunculus syndrome.*