Extreme economic doctrines—whether right or left—are structural performances, temporary galvanizations around dysfunction. They flare precisely because they replicate the fractures that sustain them. What appears as crisis-management is, in fact, a choreography of failure made durable. The intentional destruction of poverty is not an error of policy but a condition of possibility for wealth at scale—the churn of destitution feeding precisely those who claim to repair it. Prosperity becomes a byproduct of scarcity; stability is a function of instability.
We fail to see that our descriptions do not enclose reality, but are contained by it. Dependency precedes autonomy; systems must define us before our narratives emerge. Communication precedes identity; self-determination is downstream. Language, markets, political spectacle—they do not represent autonomy so much as they instantiate constraint. The world does not defer to our words; our words are produced within conditions in which autonomy is already compromised. This inversion calls for philosophical humility. The hubris of believing one encloses meaning is the root of the extreme-economic debacle, a recursion that undermines itself through its own incoherence.
Daedelus Kite 