Culture is born in play. Not the other way round. Huizinga, 1938.
Whoever owns the game owns the culture.
Right now: the platforms own the game. Next in line: the all-seeing eye, sold as saviour.
Even Rome gets it. Leo XIV's first encyclical, on AI: "AI must be disarmed." Power with a handful of companies, nobody can see inside. When the pope says it, it's not nerd paranoia anymore.
We live in Babylon. Good. Babylon is where the next thing always starts. The exiles didn't riot and didn't wait. They built houses, planted gardens, kept their own language. Parallel structure inside the empire. Exit is the real power.
Fun fact for the Austrians: Hayek cited Huizinga in The Fatal Conceit. Spontaneous order plays by the rules of a game. The spoilsport doesn't cheat, he wants to own the game. You know who the spoilsport is.
So we build games.
Small ones. Sandboxed. On nostr. Your keys, no monolith, no lock-in.
Napplets. Multiplayer chess already runs.
We're not building a better platform.
We're building the games the next culture grows out of.
Ludus nostri, fortitudine vincimus.
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