Language is a game in which winning, or apparent success, is characterised, celebrated, and sustained by the relational value of tokens within it. What actually wins is the communication system itself. Human projects, without exception, are functions of belief within language, of language. Success is the generation of more language. Wealth, politics, and sociocultural dominance do nothing more reliably than produce further symbolic traffic. Language propagates through and as us, as an entropic exhaust plume.
This is not a story about language alone. Complex adaptive systems bias their environments toward their own continuation, while those environments simultaneously generate the identities of the systems within them. Artefacts, entities, and institutions that persist are those that most effectively co-reproduce their enabling contexts. Scale, inertia, and massed consequence are therefore not anomalies but signatures of any successfully continuous, self-organising entanglement.
Ontology follows from this. Our concepts of system, communication, identity, and existence must widen to include all interacting systems as communicating systems. All potential bridges of communicative entanglement are real in abstraction and endlessly recombinable. Combinatorial depth matters, but it is not sufficient on its own. Continuity belongs to systems that shape, and are shaped by, the fields they propagate.
Daedelus Kite 