> [!quote] We have become cursed by the clergy who count our coins, the multinational interests who authorize our authoritarians, and the liars who conspire for their own desires. Implicit incentives and false binaries lock our doors, but merely paper over our windows. Monetary hegemony, a self-wielding weapon, is nearly all that is in control. > - [ShaneAndersen.ca](https://shaneandersen.ca/) Hegemony is dominance of one group over another. For us, today, as living generations who straddle the millennia, our world is ruled near entirely by the flow of money. This would not be bad, if our money had a legible noise to signal ratio. But there is far too much noise. All manner of Evil, incompetence, and artifacting, have rendered what was once a powerful means of interpersonal and geopolitical conversation into little more than nonsense holding up a progressive puppet show of intertwined and twisted knot works. It is likely not for I, or likely any yet alive, to know what to do about this. But many things must be done. The noise must be lowered. The signal must once again be parsable by the everyman. Or at the very least, if that was never the case, the song we are all singing together must stir a dance which does not march us all to mass slow suicides.