Modern Web3 governance is facing an intellectual crisis because its architectures are built on a narrow, Eurocentric worldview that treats society as an agglomeration of predatory individuals.

We are ruled by a low-trust psychology inherited directly from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan—the belief that human life is a competitive "war of all against all". Under this framework, Web3 protocols treat every user as a default malicious actor. We use high gas fees, penalties, and slashing to force cooperation through the fear of financial loss. It is a system designed to manage distrust rather than build community.

This hyper-individualistic worldview is a local, historical artifact of Western Europe, yet it is being forced onto global populations as a universal truth. The US, which founded its legal systems on the rhetoric of freedom from tyranny, has exported a capitalist supremacy that reduces all human interaction to speculative transactions.

When global developers adopt this mindset, they build digital colosseums of extraction rather than sustainable digital civilizations. They act as intellectual agents of modern "East India Companies"—designing systems where a small circle of Western venture capital funds capture the vast majority of the token supply and extract rent from global retail users. Until we shatter this single-lens view of humanity, Web3 will remain a playground for financial oligarchs.