The terrain ahead is unknown, but not unknowable. It is shaped not by fate, but by choice, discipline, and the quiet bravery of those who keep walking.
I have charted so many others. Systems, thinkers, doctrines. But I’ve not yet charted this body. This way of seeing. This kind of loneliness. There is a quiet map waiting to be drawn — not for applause, not for publication — but for inheritable clarity.
What I gain is the ability to not pass this fog forward. And what I risk by avoiding it is a lineage of silence and self-doubt passed through my children’s veins.
The trial continues.
FIELD NOTE [No. 01]
Recorded: Fog thick, bearings unreliable
"The map is not the territory."
A note, pinned beside a route
that no longer exists.
“Mao’s Great Leap Forward,
realized through the fiat machine.
Progress was printed.
Collapse was byzantine.”
The trial continues.
#fieldnotes #thetrialcontinues
#economiccartography
Shoutout to nostr:npub1tvqc82mv8cezhax5r34n4muc2c4pgjz8kaye2smj032nngg52clq0rkrq4 for putting me onto Untype and helping #grownostr
nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac I used https://untype.app/ to post this. I’m thinking of doing a series of entries on there. Thanks for the app.
Baptism by fire 🔥
The trial continues.