Abstract This paper argues that the dominant paradigm of individual moral responsibility—embedded in legal systems, economic theory, educational practice, and religious doctrine—systematically obscures the role of environmental architecture in shaping human behavior. Drawing on a century of empirical evidence from behavioral psychology (Skinner, 1953; Bandura, 1977), social psychology (Zimbardo, 2007; Milgram, 1963), environmental criminology (Wilson & Kelling, 1982), and public health resear...

Abstract This paper argues that the dominant paradigm of individual moral responsibility—embedded in legal systems, economic theory, educational practice, and religious doctrine—systematically obscures the role of environmental architecture in shaping human behavior. Drawing on a century of empirical evidence from behavioral psychology (Skinner, 1953; Bandura, 1977), social psychology (Zimbardo, 2007; Milgram, 1963), environmental criminology (Wilson & Kelling, 1982), and public health resear...

The Jurisdictional ParadoxEvery serious Web3 project eventually hits the same wall. The technology is transnational by design. It operates across borders, without intermediaries, without a central point of control. This is the entire point. But the legal systems that regulate it are national. They are territorial, hierarchical, and built on the assumption that every actor belongs to a jurisdiction. When a regulator in the United States issues an enforcement action against a decentralized prot...

The Jurisdictional ParadoxEvery serious Web3 project eventually hits the same wall. The technology is transnational by design. It operates across borders, without intermediaries, without a central point of control. This is the entire point. But the legal systems that regulate it are national. They are territorial, hierarchical, and built on the assumption that every actor belongs to a jurisdiction. When a regulator in the United States issues an enforcement action against a decentralized prot...

Every model of governance in history changed who holds power. None questioned whether power should exist at all. This essay describes the first working system where power is absent as a category — and asks: find the error.

Every model of governance in history changed who holds power. None questioned whether power should exist at all. This essay describes the first working system where power is absent as a category — and asks: find the error.

The wars, the economic shocks, the collapsing institutions — they are not the disease. They are the symptoms. And nobody is proposing a cure, because the cure requires something that does not yet exist.

The wars, the economic shocks, the collapsing institutions — they are not the disease. They are the symptoms. And nobody is proposing a cure, because the cure requires something that does not yet exist.