Are you wondering what kyurensiism is, this unconscious religion revered by all the pisce$-pisce$ in the Social Aquarium? No? Oh yes, one must be aware of a phenomenon to wonder what it is. Anyway, fear not. Let me take you by the invisible hand of the market and make you sink with me into the depths of the human psyche. Welcome to the Kyurensi Kodex.
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From millennia to millennia, humanity has gone through countless upheavals, most of them being of its own subconscious initiative, both individually and collectively. We have transcended our methods of production, our methods of governance, our very methods of existence. Yet, never, ever have we transcended our method of “exchange”; IT is what has transcended us. And I put this darn word full of crap in quotation marks because there is only an appearance of exchange. Since always, we have been living together in a closed Potential Ensemble that we treat as a zero-sum game. Certainly, the limits of natural resources imply a zero-sum game, but money does not have to follow the same logic because many of our interactions and transactions involve only time, which is ultimately infinite as such. And if we recycle and compost like civilized people instead of throwing everything away like spoiled children, even natural resources could become almost infinite. Why have we erected the opposite of what would be logical? We are haunted by the past, but above all, above all, by a chimeric shark encoded in our words and thoughts. An unconscious religious belief that shapes the human psyche in its irrational image. A chimera that exists because it does not exist.
The ontology of Kyurensi
A system, in order to be coherent, must revolve around its function. We have established a global system that governs existence on Earth, which we will call “The Potential Ensemble,” consisting of several interconnected systems. The supporting structures are designed to do everything possible to resolve or mitigate the problems of existence, ideally leading to their own obsolescence when feasible. Here is where the role of the structure lies: it must counter the reason for its creation and undertake its own deconstruction. The healthcare system should heal people, the education system should educate people, the justice system should deliver justice. The function is more important than the structure because the structure is created to fulfill a function, even if it was this desired abstract function that inspired the construction of the structure. A structure must combat the cause that inspired it.
Unfortunately, there is a structure within the Potential Ensemble that undermines the project. Due to its inversive influence, all other structures have become more important than their function, sometimes even encouraging the problem to which it owes its existence. The only structure that has not become more important than its function is money. This is what defines the inversive agent of the Potential Ensemble, detaching other structures from their ends. It becomes the end itself, limiting the means. It has even become more important than the other structures, handicapping them from their own function. By reifying its function, money has become liquid and escaped its structure, contaminating the means and ends of others with its function. And water in gears, it rusts.
If a structure has to fight against what inspired it, it would be interesting to apply this logic to money. Money was created to establish trust between strangers during exchanges. This is where the emptiness of money is revealed. Money must fight the cause of this need to establish trust between individuals, which makes no damn sense. Lack of trust is an imaginary problem. It’s not like sickness, hunger, or bad weather. So, money must fight against the lack of trust. We are actually heading in the opposite direction.
Being a complex structure, but one that seems so natural to us, dating back to the era of the pharaohs and institutionalized over millennia, it is difficult to simply call it the “banking system,” as its function is to manage kapital, which it does marvelously; kapital’s function being to quantify the right to accessibility, not to distribute it. This structure is merely the fin of the shark that we will call “Kyurensi.” Kyurensi is this ancestral invisible structure that, unbeknownst to us, has inverted our logic (a structure of our psyche that is meant to help us apprehend reality) and other structures. Kyurensi encompasses all financial social structures and the psychological structures it has generated in personal and collective subconsciousness throughout the Tale o’ Bills.
So, to illustrate any structure of a system, its parameters must be isolated: its function, its means, and its purpose. Let’s analyze this good old imaginary shark then:
The current function of Kyurensi: To attest to the right to accessibility to a good or service.
This is where it gets interesting. It would have been tempting to state that its purpose is to simplify exchanges, but that hasn’t been the case for a long time. That was its original function, back when humans were closer to beasts than to civilization. We were so afraid of each other. The actors of the Potential Ensemble had to exchange goods and services among themselves that didn’t have a fixed value to ensure their survival or even just a bit of comfort. One actor might desire a good from another actor who didn’t desire their services. They had to create a chain of barter to fulfill their desires, which was laborious for everyone. That’s when the intermediary of money came into play, allowing goods and services to be assigned a value and facilitating exchanges, undeniably. So, if its function is to facilitate exchanges, its very structure demands eradicating that need to the best of its abilities. This implies that its aim was to facilitate exchanges, create efficient chains of exchange, until the basic conditions of the Potential Ensemble no longer necessitate the need for exchange because universal accessibility to goods and services would be ensured by our ingenuity.
I would like to add a caveat here to this view of our ancestral market. When humans lived in tribes or small villages, they didn’t exchange goods among themselves. Members of the same tribe trusted each other, so there was no need for currency to ensure the validity of the “exchange”. They had enough labor without inventing additional complexities. The concept of exchange and barter emerged when tribes wanted to trade with each other, with strangers who had no reason to trust one another. Bartering was not even feasible, so the invention of money helped facilitate exchanges with strangers. Therefore, money is not a simplification of exchange; it represents trust in that exchange. In any case, only money could claim to simplify a process by adding an illusory intermediary.
An interversion has gradually taken hold. Kyurensi’s liquidity has permeated every nook and cranny of our porous and malleable brain. If EVERYTHING could already be exchanged without money, the addition of this inverting agent added substance to EVERYTHING. But the grand EVERYTHING can be nothing more than itself, logic would dictate that nothing can be added to EVERYTHING. The only way for money to penetrate EVERYTHING was to subtract from it to make room. Thus, the use of this intermediary turned hyper-intermediary feeds on the Potential Ensemble by taking its share in each transaction.
Psychologically, the transition from bartering to mercantilism brought with it Kyurensi’s logic: profit. Profit is nothing but the simulation of the birth of money in the grand EVERYTHING. If money had to take a bite out of the EVERYTHING to infiltrate reality, profit must take a bite out of the Potential Ensemble to be coherent. Profit has given us the impression that it exists beyond the grand EVERYTHING. However, the profit of one actor inevitably entails the impoverishment of another. There is nothing more than the EVERYTHING in this logic.
The Means of Kyurensi: Liquid divine right is a reservoir of rights without responsibility. With this divine right, one can indulge in whatever one desires, until liquidity runs dry. The most ironic part is that this inherent immorality of liquid divine right is accepted because it forms the foundation of what is called “freedom”. However, we realize, in the decline of the era of the shark, that the more individuals strive to be “free”, the less free society as a whole becomes. Freedom, being governed by liquid divine right, is a zero-sum game, where it is not necessary, nor even logical. Thus, it takes a multitude of poor persons to create a rich person.
Its systemic end: anything that generates wealth, such as profit made by solving problems, must be maintained, which is why problems are no longer solvable. It is thus impossible to imagine getting out of the logic of Kyurensi because the profit it generates does not even solve problems at the source, it is just a mission-less commission. And on top of that, the pharaoh shark has become the only way to solve problems. So, it gives the impression that Kyurensi is not even a problem to solve because it is what solves the problems. However, we do not see that it is also the one that creates them in majority. Some would say that it is the humans that are evil, but money is to banks what a AK-47 is to a shooter in a school. And liquid divine right is their ammunition.
Its utopian end: the establishment of a Potential Ensemble that does not require money to motivate people to dedicate themselves to the civilization that offers them everything they ask for without intermediaries because trust will finally prevail. Farewell Kyurensi!
The hauntology of Kyurensi
Since Kyurensi has never been deconstructed, unlike all the rest of our culture, history, and religions, it returns to haunt us, as in a vile anthology of the world, every time a catastrophe happens. Often, disasters have occurred or have not been adequately addressed simply due to the lack of imaginary money. And with every great revolution, where the people wanted to reclaim their own share, the result has been the establishment of a new elite (or the same in disguise) that cunningly channels the maximum of liquid divine right upwards, like former despots. And each time, even before the era of pisces, humans had to bend themselves to the whimsical notion of money rather than the other way around. This market, parodying the symbiosis between our own cells or that of nature, remains insubordinate as a monolithic authority. We remain oblivious to our kyurensism, era after era. And the more there is liquid divine right, the less people trust each other. Because with this hypermediary, there is no longer the original trust, there is no longer any attributed value, and there is no longer any tangible object. Only specters of words behind golden figures.
Obviously, everything that demonstrates and proves Kyurensi is more of a metaphysics than an exact science. No shit, I don’t even believe in demons! This exercise is just a masquerade of words. However, what is true is its real impact on reality since its advent. For a mere intermediary, it has become the means to all ends and the end of all means. Let’s see how this simple notion has dissipated within itself over the ages and how we have checkmated ourselves.
The anthology of Kyurensi or the scholar’s mate or checkmate in 4 moves
1: Baptism of the intermediary
Long ago, money was only a trusted intermediary between strangers from different tribes. It is easy to imagine that this market was only valid between tribes, but unlimited symbiosis remained practiced within each tribe. As money became more widespread, its negative impacts began to be felt even within the same tribe. The natural bond of trust among fellow citizens gave way to monetary trust. It worked well between strangers, so why wouldn’t it work between known acquaintances?
2: First communion of the supermediary
It has been a long time since the intermediary became a supermediary. From the moment it became the standard of exchange, instead of the natural symbiosis of a tribe, money has transformed into the supermediary. The purpose of the exchange was no longer to solve external and more or less common problems, or even just to formalize trust between strangers, but the pursuit of profit. For example, people who relied on the tribe’s butcher for their daily meat were denied food because it was more profitable for the butcher to sell to a tribe that did not have access to his products but was willing to offer a handful of liquid divine right. The rule of supply and demand is the logic that allowed this unhealthy mutation, a distancing from the real; trust was devoured by the shark.
3: Rite of confirmation of the hypermediary
Profit is already at the core of exchange, but it is never enough. We invented the concept of profit in order not to benefit from it because scarcity implies value. Profit must be scarce to be precious. To excessively profit from profit would be to kill the notion itself. Instead of creating a beneficial system, we prefer a maleficent system where goodness is rare and therefore valuable. The wealthy must protect their assets because they can still lose everything. And thus the stock market and fiat money came into existence. The stock market allowed Kyurensi’s remoras to divide their properties and share them with other remoras in order to protect each other in case of bankruptcy, finally freeing themselves from their heavy responsibilities (I feel nauseous). Fiat money, on the other hand, disconnected the value of money from any associated reserve of gold or precious metals (that was also ridiculous, but at least logical or coherent). Everything ended up in the stock market, and price fluctuations benefit the armored remoras who cannot lose anything in case of error or dishonesty. They are no longer responsible for anything. Here, there is no trust or value left. Inflation and debt irreversibly dissolve the value of liquid divine right, like the wind erodes mountains. Consequently, the degenerate social fabric undermines its own self-confidence, like a gold prospector digging where gold does not exist.
4: Marriage unifying money and necessity until death do them part
Money is now the least trusted entity. A seller wants to sell their products at higher prices to make a profit; a repairman should not repair too well what they fix, as something that no longer breaks no longer brings income; insurance companies do not pay out to those affected by disasters; factories design cheap disposable items that cannot be repaired, and any alternative has been eliminated. And any company attempting to reverse the trend would be burned in the furnace of consumerism. There is nothing left of the intermediary. Its attributes have been reversed, and we are all completely alienated because of the hypermediary. Long live the trustless and valueless marriage!
The memory of money
One often overlooked or ignored facet of liquid divine right is the time it is imbued with, from the inception of the intermediary to the downfall of the hypermediary. Money remembers the past, it has memory. With each transaction (action transformed?), the generated profit and loss become ingrained in its very essence. Since this liquid divine right can accumulate in bottomless vaults, those who possess it have no incentive to redistribute it, creating economic pressure on the vault-less who don’t care because they don’t have the luxury of time, they must work to hope to survive. As long as they have enough liquid divine right to imagine a reassuring narrative to give pseudo-meaning to their lives, they ride the wave of the financial tsunami without being able to catch it. This poverty causes a multitude of problems that could be solved by reducing this social inequality, but Kyurensi’s remoras who possess the liquid divine right also have the divine right to keep it, from generation to generation, digging a Mariana Trench between them and the other pisces-pisces. To them, liquid divine right is private property.
Thus, money contains the entire memory of our history, just as water absorbs our emotions and thoughts. If our intentions can influence water, why can’t they influence liquidity?
What if we made a wish with every transaction, like a ritual?
“By the liquid divine right, I demand that we be given the end of Kyurensi.”
But good needs evil to exist and inversely
Certainly, everything exists in duality with its opposite, but it is unnecessary to impose a polarity to justify its inverse. For example, good needs evil to be understood, from a conceptual standpoint. And vice versa. However, it does not require it, in any proportion, to exist as a phenomenon. Does it mean that people need to be raped every day because without this evil, as the opposite of good which consists of not being raped, the inverse of good would not exist? Of course not, come back down to Earth with your story that good cannot exist without evil.
There could only be good, and no one would take offense. Tomorrow morning, we learn that no one was raped the day before. Do you really believe that a hundred dudes are going to say, “Damn, the existence of not being raped cannot exist without someone being raped, so I’m going to rape someone before existence collapses under the weight of this paradox”? No, there is only good, yay, it ends there.
The concept of yin yang is valid at a conceptual level, not phenomenological. Evil may only exist in imagination, the concept does not need to spill over into reality to prove itself. Now that the liquid divine right has been revealed for what it is no longer, it will be easier to detach ourselves from what holds more value than our children. We can then ensure them a radiant future, bequeath them a geninomic Potential Ensemble where Kyurensi will be nothing more than a forgotten bad memory. The conclusion of a morbid tale that tells the human circus where everyone had forgotten that they had emancipated themselves from nature, believing they were responding to it with a resource as imaginary as what they believed their nature to be. However, the nature of the human being is to change their nature. Let us not be afraid of our nature, it is not what haunts us. It is us who haunt it.
