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The Essays

The book, written in the open. Each piece is the best honest answer to one question worth searching for. Walked in order: the leveling coalition, the capitulation, property-as-physics, the wave, the chokepoint, the reassembly.

• Part I — The Fall

  The Stain

  June 12, 2026

  There are two stories about how the many came to be ruled by the few. The comfortable one says it was done to us. The worse one — and worse is usually a sign a thing is closer to true — says we let go. This is the whole book on a napkin: stain, wave, chokepoint, channel.

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