The Grey Mesh: A Secret Society of Kingmakers

Posted: July 8, 2025 | Author: | Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

As Dan Brown, write about a secret “Champions League for Do-Gooders” like the Istari, that manages to make humility (or at least kenosis) high-status without destroying it.

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Prologue

Paris. Midnight. A whisper in the crypt of Sainte-Chapelle.

The archivist had just died.

No signs of struggle. No cause of death.

Only a note, ink barely dry:

“The Mesh is real. The Grey walk among us.”

The authorities dismissed it.

But in a hidden Vatican server, flagged under ecclesiastical redaction, that phrase triggered a Level 7 containment protocol.

Someone knew.

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Anti-Fragile Resilience: A Call for Generative Sacrifice

Posted: November 10, 2024 | Author: | Filed under: Governance Reform | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments

As Taleb (after listening to Billy Joel’s “We didn’t light the fire“), explain Venkatesh Rao’s idea of “hardness” as essential for the empires that enabled civilization to scale — and the resulting wonders and horrors. Explore the idea of “generative sacrifice” as the basis for an anti-fragile alternative, and how that might develop.

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Delivered on the 80th Anniversary of the United Nations, April 1st, 2025

Esteemed Delegates,

Today, we stand at a historic crossroads. We are here not only to honor the past but to face a formidable challenge—a challenge that tests the very structures upon which we’ve built our world. Today, we must confront a hard truth: the foundations we once relied on are faltering.

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