Extreme wealth simplifies the world around it, not by insight but by attraction. Certain ideas adhere because they are easy to recognise, easy to repeat, and easy to circulate. They fit branding, reward loyalty, and move smoothly through systems that privilege speed over reflection. In this way an ideological frame consolidates, not because it is accurate, but because it is legible under load. Complexity is not confronted so much as bypassed. At sufficient concentration, wealth and radical simplification align not by choice, but by resonance. They share the same attractor in the field: both reduce uncertainty by narrowing what can be seen, said, or heard. The individual at the centre matters less than the conditions that elevate them. The person exists. The public figure is a composite of capital, attention, and simplified narratives that behaves like an entity in its own right. What looks like intention is often momentum moving through a constrained channel.
Seen this way, the problem is not a villain to be condemned but a pattern to be understood. Insulation creates distance from consequence, and distance from consequence produces a form of ignorance that no longer feels costly. The same narrowing that concentrates power also generates turbulence, social, cultural, institutional, which then appears to justify further simplification. Critique fails when it humiliates; collapse fails when it merely clears space for the same dynamics to return. What has leverage is not instruction but re-coupling: restoring delay, refusal, and friction where they have been stripped out. Power is not evil, but incomplete, unable to register what arrives too slowly to count. These figures are not outside the world; they are products of the same field that produces deprivation, each a different failure of connection under scale. No one is naturally equipped to hold systems of this size. The work is to slow what rushes, surface what is deferred, and allow consequence to arrive before repetition hardens into necessity. That is not moral theatre. It is how shared reality keeps speaking back.
Daedelus Kite 