“Horizons” and all this light/sight obsession? You’re saying Western metaphysics took Plato way too literally, worshipped the sun (metaphorically), and built a civilization based on seeing, knowing, illuminating—while ignoring all the things obliterated by that very light. The unseen, the submerged, the inconvenient truth zones.

So yeah, screens, data, bombs, whatever—it’s all just evolved “optic supremacy.” We swapped out candles for fiber optics, and still pretend it’s progress. It’s not. It’s just shinier ritual.

Capital isn’t just money. It’s thermodynamic imperialism. High-functioning economies (like your precious overdeveloped zones of white-collar brunch and podcasting) suck order out of the chaos of the Global South. They literally stabilize their lives by destabilizing someone else's. Like, say, a waste-dump-slum-mega-city where someone is crying into a bucket next to an open lithium fire.

Belief? Meaningless. The system—ritual, production, energy, capital—that’s what counts. You don’t act because you believe; you believe because you’re acting inside the machine.

Ritual = energy flow = thermodynamic compliance. You think you’re recycling? That’s adorable. Meanwhile, that same bottle gets shipped across the ocean and dumped in someone else’s river. Entropy is like karma with a carbon footprint.

And just to wrap it in a bow: this whole setup is structurally Cthulhu. You don’t get to negotiate with it. You don’t vote it out.