When a system is structured around different values, reforming it costs more energy than building alongside it. That's frontier expansion — even if it looks like retreat from inside the old system.

"You can't just declare a new space for the mind. You need a real strategy for how to make the mind expand there... The cypherpunks saw this clearly, although they had a vibe of running away. I think expanding into that space is a much better frame." - Tamers of Entropy (Lisa talking about A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow)

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