Folklore Institute

Governance Public Utilities for @zksync at @thezknation

I think potentially a realisation that the foundational meaning of our society feels hollow, and the search for aesthetic is a fundamentally one of nostalgia: these aesthetics remind us of a time when we had more meaning

But this is of course a false hope. Aesthetics of the past came because there was meaning, and each aesthetic Meant something; each detail. I was in China recently and was touched by how every detail Means something. 
By contrast this current obsession is aesthetic for aesthetics sake. Maybe the pursuit of aesthetic could become a foundational value in its own right.

Note that Ritual = Hierarchy

A decentralised world will require new kinds of meaning making 

https://www.noemamag.com/the-call-of-ritual