The unholdable whole

Beneath every scale of this reading is one fact that exceeds the format: *the total system can no longer be held by any single attention — human or machine — and everything we are watching is a response to that.* The AI that degrades over length. The citizen who retreats to the cozy web. The trade bloc that partitions into sovereign stacks. The gaze that can hold one war but not two. Each is a local, sane adaptation to a global, insane truth: the world has grown larger than the containers built ...