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Power Changes Responsibility: Different Advice for the Socialist International and the Fourth Intern…
Introduction: The Left’s Crisis Is Not Ideological, but RelationalThe contemporary Left does not suffer from a lack of ideals. It suffers from a refusal to differentiate responsibility according to power. For more than a century, internal debates have treated left-wing organisations as if they occupied comparable positions in the world system. They do not. Some hold state power, legislative leverage, regulatory capacity, and international access. Others hold little more than critique, memory,...
Cognitive Constructivism: Narrative Sovereignty and the Architecture of Social Reality-CC0
An archival essay for independent readingIntroduction: From “What the World Is” to “How the World Is Told”Most analyses of power begin inside an already-given reality. They ask who controls resources, institutions, or bodies, and how domination operates within these parameters. Such approaches, while necessary, leave a deeper question largely untouched:How does a particular version of reality come to be accepted as reality in the first place?This essay proposes a shift in analytical focus—fro...
Loaded Magazines and the Collapse of Political Legitimacy:A Risk-Ethical and Political-Economic Anal…
Political legitimacy does not collapse at the moment a weapon is fired. It collapses earlier—at the moment a governing authority accepts the presence of live ammunition in domestic crowd control as a legitimate option. The decision to deploy armed personnel carrying loaded magazines is not a neutral security measure. It is a risk-ethical commitment. By definition, live ammunition introduces a non-zero probability of accidental discharge, misjudgment, panic escalation, or chain reactions leadi...
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$$# Ouroboros Governance System
Subtitle: From Technocratic Authoritarianism to Ethical Entropy: Diagnosing the Structural Pathologies of Modern Power
"权贵官僚国家资本主义 → 技术威权系统 → 五千年历史遗产统治术 → 系统性违宪 → 无知之恶 × 平庸之恶 → 衔尾蛇自噬"
This chain captures not merely a national tragedy, but a universal structural process where power, technology, history, legality, and cognition collapse into a self-consuming system.
Monopoly of resources via bureaucratic-hereditary elites
Suppression of political and economic competition
Surveillance systems (social credit, predictive policing)
Legitimacy outsourced to algorithmic governance
Confucian heritage, divine mandate, national myths
Modern oppression disguised as cultural continuity
Law as an elastic instrument
Constitutional interpretation as a class grammar
Ignorance-driven evil: Constructed structural blindness
Banality of evil: Bureaucratic moral amnesty via procedure
Power eats itself to maintain itself
Final collapse triggered from within (e.g., Soviet late period, US Jan 6)
$S$: Structural entropy (instability)
$R^{mask}$: Rhetorical mask index (frequency of "freedom"/"democracy" claims)
$C^{collapse}$: Core contradiction collapse coefficient (e.g., Gini × youth unemployment)
$T^{control}$: Technological control intensity (surveillance × compute)
$N^{noise}$: Noise injection (rumors, leaks, counter-signals)
$A^{awakening}$: Collective cognitive awakening (public counter-analysis, dissenting archives)
System enters Ouroboros phase when $\frac{dS}{dt} > \theta_{crash}$
Region | Tech Control | Historical Myth | Legal Erosion | Ignorance | Banality | Signs of Self-Consumption |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
China | Very High | 5000 years narrative | Elastic legality | Media-education filtered | Bureaucratic flows | Nationalist backfire + cognitive dissonance |
USA | High | Freedom-democracy myth | Amendment/overreach cycles | Marketized ignorance | Justice-industrial complex | Jan 6 / MAGA inversion |
Russia | High | Orthodoxy + Soviet legacy | Presidential override | Misinformation ecology | Military-legal convergence |
Systemic Function | Antidote | Example | Barrier |
|---|---|---|---|
Tech-Authoritarianism | Distributed validation (e.g., ZK-Proofs) | Ethereum ZK-Rollups for legal voting | High entry threshold |
Narrative Monopoly | Decentralized memory | Argentina dictatorship archives on IPFS | Global consensus required |
Bureaucratic Evil | AR-based moral augmentation | Public AR layers tagging wealth flows | Privacy & safety risks |
Legal Elasticity | Version-controlled civic law | Open Constitution Git repos | Unrecognized by formal systems |
Term (EN) | 中文术语 | Description |
|---|---|---|
Ouroboros Governance | 衔尾蛇统治术 | Self-consuming legitimacy systems |
Technocratic Authoritarianism | 技术威权主义 | Control via algorithms & surveillance |
Ignorance-Driven Evil | 无知之恶 | Engineered blindness of the masses |
Bureaucratic Banality | 平庸之恶 | Morally detached procedural execution |
Legal Erosion | 宪政裂解 | Flexibilized constitutionalism for elite interest |
"Humanity will not perish from tyranny, but from tyranny speaking the language of freedom."
When algorithms become gods and judges merely click OK, then silence becomes the last rebellion.
Let the silent refusal to perform become our first act of structural resistance.
In a city called Ouroboros, the rulers built a perfect machine. It could predict crime, record every conversation, and measure each citizen's loyalty. They called it "Order."
At first, the people felt safe. Then, they felt watched. Finally, they forgot whether they were still human.
One day, an old clockmaker climbed the tower to repair the "Order" machine. Opening it, he found no gears, no wires—only a snake, biting its own tail.
"Who drives the city?" he asked.
The snake replied: "Your fear."
"Then why do you consume yourself?"
The snake said: "If I do not consume myself, I cannot turn."
The clockmaker smiled. He didn’t shut down the machine—he simply turned the volume off.
Months passed. The city fell into silence. No cheers. No rage. Just people looking at each other without lying.
That day, the snake stopped. The machine stopped. And the city, at last, began to move.
This work is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal — No Rights Reserved.$$

$$# Ouroboros Governance System
Subtitle: From Technocratic Authoritarianism to Ethical Entropy: Diagnosing the Structural Pathologies of Modern Power
"权贵官僚国家资本主义 → 技术威权系统 → 五千年历史遗产统治术 → 系统性违宪 → 无知之恶 × 平庸之恶 → 衔尾蛇自噬"
This chain captures not merely a national tragedy, but a universal structural process where power, technology, history, legality, and cognition collapse into a self-consuming system.
Monopoly of resources via bureaucratic-hereditary elites
Suppression of political and economic competition
Surveillance systems (social credit, predictive policing)
Legitimacy outsourced to algorithmic governance
Confucian heritage, divine mandate, national myths
Modern oppression disguised as cultural continuity
Law as an elastic instrument
Constitutional interpretation as a class grammar
Ignorance-driven evil: Constructed structural blindness
Banality of evil: Bureaucratic moral amnesty via procedure
Power eats itself to maintain itself
Final collapse triggered from within (e.g., Soviet late period, US Jan 6)
$S$: Structural entropy (instability)
$R^{mask}$: Rhetorical mask index (frequency of "freedom"/"democracy" claims)
$C^{collapse}$: Core contradiction collapse coefficient (e.g., Gini × youth unemployment)
$T^{control}$: Technological control intensity (surveillance × compute)
$N^{noise}$: Noise injection (rumors, leaks, counter-signals)
$A^{awakening}$: Collective cognitive awakening (public counter-analysis, dissenting archives)
System enters Ouroboros phase when $\frac{dS}{dt} > \theta_{crash}$
Region | Tech Control | Historical Myth | Legal Erosion | Ignorance | Banality | Signs of Self-Consumption |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
China | Very High | 5000 years narrative | Elastic legality | Media-education filtered | Bureaucratic flows | Nationalist backfire + cognitive dissonance |
USA | High | Freedom-democracy myth | Amendment/overreach cycles | Marketized ignorance | Justice-industrial complex | Jan 6 / MAGA inversion |
Russia | High | Orthodoxy + Soviet legacy | Presidential override | Misinformation ecology | Military-legal convergence |
Systemic Function | Antidote | Example | Barrier |
|---|---|---|---|
Tech-Authoritarianism | Distributed validation (e.g., ZK-Proofs) | Ethereum ZK-Rollups for legal voting | High entry threshold |
Narrative Monopoly | Decentralized memory | Argentina dictatorship archives on IPFS | Global consensus required |
Bureaucratic Evil | AR-based moral augmentation | Public AR layers tagging wealth flows | Privacy & safety risks |
Legal Elasticity | Version-controlled civic law | Open Constitution Git repos | Unrecognized by formal systems |
Term (EN) | 中文术语 | Description |
|---|---|---|
Ouroboros Governance | 衔尾蛇统治术 | Self-consuming legitimacy systems |
Technocratic Authoritarianism | 技术威权主义 | Control via algorithms & surveillance |
Ignorance-Driven Evil | 无知之恶 | Engineered blindness of the masses |
Bureaucratic Banality | 平庸之恶 | Morally detached procedural execution |
Legal Erosion | 宪政裂解 | Flexibilized constitutionalism for elite interest |
"Humanity will not perish from tyranny, but from tyranny speaking the language of freedom."
When algorithms become gods and judges merely click OK, then silence becomes the last rebellion.
Let the silent refusal to perform become our first act of structural resistance.
In a city called Ouroboros, the rulers built a perfect machine. It could predict crime, record every conversation, and measure each citizen's loyalty. They called it "Order."
At first, the people felt safe. Then, they felt watched. Finally, they forgot whether they were still human.
One day, an old clockmaker climbed the tower to repair the "Order" machine. Opening it, he found no gears, no wires—only a snake, biting its own tail.
"Who drives the city?" he asked.
The snake replied: "Your fear."
"Then why do you consume yourself?"
The snake said: "If I do not consume myself, I cannot turn."
The clockmaker smiled. He didn’t shut down the machine—he simply turned the volume off.
Months passed. The city fell into silence. No cheers. No rage. Just people looking at each other without lying.
That day, the snake stopped. The machine stopped. And the city, at last, began to move.
This work is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal — No Rights Reserved.$$

Wagner insurrection
Israel | High | Religious-national selection | Democratic backslide | Military education complex | IDF execution chain | Legitimacy fragmentation |
Iran | High | Islamic revolution ideology | Sharia override | Religious narrative control | Morality police routine | Women's protest wave |
Wagner insurrection
Israel | High | Religious-national selection | Democratic backslide | Military education complex | IDF execution chain | Legitimacy fragmentation |
Iran | High | Islamic revolution ideology | Sharia override | Religious narrative control | Morality police routine | Women's protest wave |
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