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"#### **Agency and the Ecological Cost (Vici) – 51/49** \n",
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"_Ecological Cost vs. Optimized Efficiency_. Nietzsche's focus on \"values\" and the \"transvaluation\" of all values or of postmodern mankind, alienated (in Marxist sense), because they \"killed god\". His prophetic soul!\n",
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"To act is to stake a claim within an inherited world, but agency comes at a cost. Victory is never absolute; it emerges from a 51/49 balance, where progress is edged by consequence. Every assertion of will, every transformation of a system, extracts from an ecological balance—whether social, economic, or environmental. Industrial revolutions enrich but pollute, technological leaps liberate but alienate, and personal ambition carves paths but leaves trails of destruction. The triumph of agency is precarious, its cost hidden in the margins of excess and depletion. The one who acts must reckon with this delicate balance: to push too far is to erode the very landscape that made action possible, but to hesitate is to forfeit the margin of change. The agent’s path is neither conquest nor submission but a navigation of thresholds, knowing that each step forward destabilizes as much as it constructs. \n",
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"##### **New Brand (Veni) – 51/49** \n",
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<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 29 </span><span class="caption-text"><em>Archetypal</em>. We only think of three things: ends 🗡️, means $, and cost 🩸.</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 30 </span><span class="caption-text"><em>Archetypal</em>. We only think of three things: ends 🗡️, means $, and cost 🩸.</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
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<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 35 </span><span class="caption-text"><em>Tokenization</em>. What does all this mean? See also <span class="xref std std-ref">speculative</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 36 </span><span class="caption-text"><em>Tokenization</em>. What does all this mean? See also <span class="xref std std-ref">speculative</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
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<h3><strong>World and Inheritance (Veni) – 95/5</strong><a class="headerlink" href="#world-and-inheritance-veni-95-5" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>To be born is to inherit a world already in motion, a vast architecture of resources, institutions, and norms shaped by forces beyond the individual’s control. This inheritance is not merely genetic but structural—an amalgamation of biological, economic, and cultural systems refined over millennia. The world is an inheritance weighted 95/5, where the overwhelming bulk of circumstances are predetermined, and the individual’s agency, a sliver of possibility, emerges within a framework largely dictated by history. At birth, we receive a world sculpted by those who came before, their triumphs and their failures compressed into the scaffolding of laws, cities, traditions, and economic stratifications. Yet, the 5%—the margin of maneuverability—holds within it the seeds of transformation, the flicker of autonomy that defines human aspiration. To inherit is not to possess, but to be positioned within an intricate game, where rules precede the player, and the board is never of one’s own making. Nihilists fail to embrace this.</p>
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<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 25 </span><span class="caption-text">If ever you wonder from whence the “V” sign comes. There is a PayPal <a class="reference external" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa">mafia</a>, with roots in South Africa. Their ancestors and themselves have been iteratively victorious.</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id3" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 25 </span><span class="caption-text">If ever you wonder from whence the “V” sign comes. There is a PayPal <a class="reference external" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa">mafia</a>, with roots in South Africa. Their ancestors and themselves have been iteratively victorious.</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id4" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
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<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 26 </span><span class="caption-text"><em>Ecological Cost vs. Optimized Efficiency</em>. Nietzsche’s focus on “values” and the “transvaluation” of all values or of postmodern mankind, alienated (in Marxist sense), because they “killed god”. His prophetic soul!</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
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<p>To act is to stake a claim within an inherited world, but agency comes at a cost. Victory is never absolute; it emerges from a 51/49 balance, where progress is edged by consequence. Every assertion of will, every transformation of a system, extracts from an ecological balance—whether social, economic, or environmental. Industrial revolutions enrich but pollute, technological leaps liberate but alienate, and personal ambition carves paths but leaves trails of destruction. The triumph of agency is precarious, its cost hidden in the margins of excess and depletion. The one who acts must reckon with this delicate balance: to push too far is to erode the very landscape that made action possible, but to hesitate is to forfeit the margin of change. The agent’s path is neither conquest nor submission but a navigation of thresholds, knowing that each step forward destabilizes as much as it constructs.</p>
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<h4><strong>New Brand (Veni) – 51/49</strong><a class="headerlink" href="#new-brand-veni-51-49" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h4>
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<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 26 </span><span class="caption-text"><em>Consider this record: 24 years, 16 managers, one trophy</em>. Nobody really looks at Tottenham any more and thinks the problem is the manager (agent) or his team (legion). A chronic lack of ambition at the very top (owners) has laid waste to Tottenham. Even if players are added – and given Spurs’ wages-to-turnover ratio is a Premier League low 47%, there must be plenty of PSR wriggle room – it will be hard to avoid the conclusion that they should have been signed in the summer. Source: <a class="reference external" href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/27/a-chronic-lack-of-ambition-has-laid-waste-to-tottenham">The Guardian</a></span><a class="headerlink" href="#id4" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 27 </span><span class="caption-text"><em>Consider this record: 24 years, 16 managers, one trophy</em>. Nobody really looks at Tottenham any more and thinks the problem is the manager (agent) or his team (legion). A chronic lack of ambition at the very top (owners) has laid waste to Tottenham. Even if players are added – and given Spurs’ wages-to-turnover ratio is a Premier League low 47%, there must be plenty of PSR wriggle room – it will be hard to avoid the conclusion that they should have been signed in the summer. Source: <a class="reference external" href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/27/a-chronic-lack-of-ambition-has-laid-waste-to-tottenham">The Guardian</a></span><a class="headerlink" href="#id5" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
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<p>Reinvention, whether personal or collective, follows the same delicate equation. The launch of a new identity—whether a company, a philosophy, or a movement—begins in a world where existing structures resist change. The old weights heavily against the new, and yet the 51% is enough. A new brand does not emerge ex nihilo; it feeds on dissatisfaction, on the unnoticed inefficiencies and dissonances of the previous order. The slightest advantage—an unseen gap in the status quo—can tip the balance. Every successful transformation relies on this edge: the recognition that in a world seemingly predetermined, there are always 49% who are uncertain, disillusioned, or ready for something else. The new brand’s victory is fragile but sufficient.</p>
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<p>At the extreme of transmission, beyond inheritance and perception, lies religion—the final compression of meaning into mythos, ritual, and structure. Here, the individual dwindles to 5%, submerged in a structure where the accumulated weight of tradition, doctrine, and metaphysical order dictate reality. Religion does not merely shape belief; it encodes the physical world itself, determining social behaviors, legal frameworks, and even physiological experiences through fasting, pilgrimage, and sacramental acts. At this scale, the 95% is law—binding, immutable, historical—while the 5% of individual interpretation must navigate within tight constraints. Unlike the earlier stages, where agency was a sliver that could tip the balance, here the weight of history is overwhelming. The legends, the scriptures, and the rites dominate, and the individual is not meant to alter them but to be absorbed by them.</p>
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<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 27 </span><span class="caption-text">To be born is to inherit. To perceive is to frame. To act is to shift the balance. But beyond action, at the limit of time, lies legend—the point where personal agency dissolves into collective myth. The world continues, reshaped but never truly conquered, and the cycle begins again.</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id5" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 28 </span><span class="caption-text">To be born is to inherit. To perceive is to frame. To act is to shift the balance. But beyond action, at the limit of time, lies legend—the point where personal agency dissolves into collective myth. The world continues, reshaped but never truly conquered, and the cycle begins again.</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id6" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
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<p>At the outermost edge of inheritance and perception lies legend—the abstraction of identity into something beyond the personal. If inheritance is 95/5 and perception 80/20, legend flips the scale entirely: 5/95. The person disappears, leaving only the residual imprint of their choices, compressed into symbols, myths, and hagiographies. The legend no longer acts; they are acted upon. They become currency, a totem wielded by later generations to validate their own actions, their own visions of the past. At this level, the self is no longer a participant but an artifact, a node in the grand structure of memory, where meaning is retrofitted and rewritten by those who follow.</p>
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<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 28 </span><span class="caption-text"><em>Vet Advised When to Sell Horse</em>. Right after an outstanding performance. Because you want to control how its perceived, the narrative backstory, and how its future performance might be imputed. Otherwise, reality manifests with point and interval estimates. This is the subject matter of the opening dialogue in Miller’s Crossing.</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id6" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
<p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 29 </span><span class="caption-text"><em>Vet Advised When to Sell Horse</em>. Right after an outstanding performance. Because you want to control how its perceived, the narrative backstory, and how its future performance might be imputed. Otherwise, reality manifests with point and interval estimates. This is the subject matter of the opening dialogue in Miller’s Crossing.</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id7" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
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