Resomodernity Café v9: Transcendent Sovereignty
Posted: January 2, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: agency, debate, philosophy, politics, systems 1 CommentSequel to Resomodernity Café v8: Silicon Advaita
The Descent of Transcendence: Sovereignty Over Time
Have Schmitt host the others in workshop to hammer out a consensus version of the thesis that sovereignty historically mediates transcendence. Write a comic self-referential skit where his own mis-mediated sovereignty almost destroys it.
ChatGPT Prompt
1. Dramatis Personae
- Carl Schmitt — Host, chair, emergency decider.
Obsessed with the exception. Nervous without it. - Eric Voegelin — Mystic diagnostician of derailments.
Speaks calmly while civilizations collapse. - Giorgio Agamben — Archaeologist of abandoned machinery.
Smiles whenever something breaks. - Eric Santner — Analyst of surplus burden and royal remains.
Notices who is quietly suffering. - Charles Taylor — Translator of inwardness for normal humans.
Keeps asking where the weight lands.
2. Opening Scene: The Invitation
Schmitt (gaveling the table):
Gentlemen. Welcome. I have convened this workshop to produce a consensus formulation of the thesis:
Sovereignty is always tied to transcendence— manifest in pre-history, mandated in antiquity, humanized in modernity.
Before we begin, let me be clear: I will not decide the exception today.
(pause)
Unless necessary.
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Posted: December 6, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: agency, philosophy, values 2 Comments- Narrative Self Café: Men Explaining Mansplaining
- The Paradox of Patriarchy
- The Silicon Rule as a Unifying Meta-Ethic
- The Silicon Rule Under Fire
- Saving the Silicon Rule
- Trial of the Silicon Rule
- Grieving the Silicon Rule
For the epilogue, explain the origins, nature and key aspects of the Silicon Rule to a first-year philosophy student.
ChatGPT Prompt
The Silicon Rule is not a psychological guess, not a loose ethical guideline, and not a metaphysical speculation.
It is a metaethical framework grounded in what we have learned about the structure of human and artificial agency.
It begins from a strong claim:
Malice is never a fundamental intention. It is always the emergent result of maladaptive training interacting with a collapsed context window.
This reframes how we understand moral failure, responsibility, and ethical interpretation.
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Radical Centrism 