A general‑audience translation of the Scaffold‑Downgrade protocol, enabled by Deferential Realism's Logic The Bhagavad Gita rests on one enormous claim:the soul is eternal and cannot be destroyed. Everything Krishna tells Arjuna depends on this.So the calibration protocol asks a simple but devastating question: What if the soul is not eternal?What if it’s temporary—something that can … Continue reading What Happens When the Gita’s Core Assumption Is Removed
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When Metaphysics Stops Lying: The Operational Bite of Constraint-Space
Deferential Realism commits the one sin contemporary philosophy cannot forgive: it measures power instead of defining it away. Philosophy has spent twenty-five centuries refining methods for talking about oppression while ensuring the conversation never routes to action. We have Foucault's genealogies (no prescription), Derrida's deconstructions (infinite deferral), and Heidegger's Being (explicitly apolitical). Even Marx, who … Continue reading When Metaphysics Stops Lying: The Operational Bite of Constraint-Space
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