False Thunder, Part 2: A Barking World

🧠 The Illusion of Control

Media figures, politicians, think tanks, and global institutions bark in overlapping loops:

But most of the time, the actual engine of world-change has already moved. It emerged in a lab, a poem, a line of code, a conversation in a basement, a drift of climate, a mood that spread invisibly across billions of minds.

And still the barking continues, as if the house will fall silent without it.

🔍 AI as the Present Tense of Disruption

Take AI as a prime example. It did not arrive because of a pundit's forecast. It did not emerge because of a regulation or a speech.

It arrived through a thousand invisible moments:

And now that it is here, the barking resumes — retrospective causality: “This is why it happened.” “This is what we must do.” “This is who’s at fault.”

But the change already arrived. It came through the door while everyone else was shouting at the gate.

🌊 The Real Movement Is Submerged

In this light, society’s institutions are not steering the wave — they’re the foam on its crest. The wave itself — that is culture, mystery, the unknown, the ungovernable. That is the terrain where true transformation occurs. Not in the headlines, but in the undercurrent.

🪷 The Still Society

What would it mean for society to become like the door? To stop insisting on authorship — and instead become permeable to the real?

It would mean a radical shift in posture:

But of course, this is asking the dog not to bark — not just one dog, but a billion, all echoing each other.

Still, you can see it.

And when one mind sees, it becomes a door. And when enough doors open, something passes through that no one can name — but everyone can feel.

That is how the world actually changes.

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