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The regulator and the regulated have converged into a single interest.
The Dead Economy Theory
Owen McGrann
Prior to the Great Disembedding, cultural systems were woven into the living fabric of a people, into their social environment and natural ecology. The people, having been raised in these ideas and thus taking them for granted, did not see the need to justify or universalize their beliefs. Memes (or [memeplexes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memeplex)) only flourished if they helped the tribe flourish (e.g. helped them forage more efficiently, made them better fighters, etc.); gene-culture coevolution was tightly coupled.
The Great Disembedding
Roger’s Bacon
If, to quote Jennings, the “internet now feels like a place whose sole purpose is selling you something,” that’s because the entire world feels that way. This was social media’s mission: to drive capitalist value seeking into areas heretofore resistant or oppositional to it, the “havens in a heartless world,” if not the inner reaches of subjectivity itself.
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
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