The Grammar of Violence: Decoding the Background Program of Modern Power | ChatGPT5.2 & NotebookLM

Modern crises — military escalation, ecological destabilization, financial volatility, widening inequality, and institutional erosion — are commonly treated as discrete failures. This work argues that such events are systemic outputs of an underlying structural grammar that shapes incentives, moral narratives, and institutional design.

Drawing on peace research (the violence triangle), systems theory, political economy, and ecological economics, the book identifies three interlocking mechanisms: (1) cultural legitimation of structural harm, (2) institutional reinforcement of extractive growth, and (3) recursive feedback loops that convert crisis into confirmation of prevailing assumptions. It further examines how dualistic conflict narratives and the equation of rationality with self-maximization stabilize militarization and ecological overshoot.

Distinguishing structural critique from conspiracy thinking, the work proposes a redesign grounded in viability-first principles. It advances a constraint-based framework in which life-support systems — ecological stability, public health, social cohesion, and institutional trust — become primary evaluative standards. The goal is not moral indictment but structural clarity: to render visible the background program that organizes modern power and to outline the conditions for systemic redesign.

Reclaiming Our Future: Transforming our Cancer Economy | NotebookLM & ChatGPT5.2

This work advances a systematic diagnosis of contemporary global capitalism as a carcinogenic mutation of economic life. It argues that the dominant money-sequence of value — investment for private monetary multiplication without intrinsic life-function — has detached from the life-requirements of human and ecological systems. The result is a pattern of metastasis across social, political, and environmental domains: widening inequality, erosion of public goods, ecological degradation, financial instability, and the hollowing out of democratic sovereignty.

Against both orthodox and Marxian economic frameworks, the book develops a life-value onto-axiology grounded in universal life-requirements. It distinguishes life-capital — capacities that generate and sustain life — from money-capital, which may grow independently of life support. By decoding the underlying value-code of the global market system and its institutional enforcement, the study proposes a paradigm shift toward life-capital investment, civil commons institutions, and public banking as the cure to systemic disorder.

The argument integrates philosophical analysis, political economy, and empirical case studies to reframe economic rationality around life-coherent standards of value, accountability, and democratic governance.

The Money Exception: How Monetary Abstraction Cancels the Moral Limits of Private Property — and How Life-Value Restores Them | ChatGPT5.2 & NotebookLM

Modern political economy rests on an implicit moral inversion: money, originally a means of exchange, has become the governing standard of value. This paper traces that inversion to a pivotal but underexamined move in early liberal property theory — the treatment of money as a morally exceptional object. Reconstructing the original life-grounded constraints on private property articulated by John Locke, the analysis shows how labor, sufficiency, and non-waste once functioned as intrinsic moral limits. The introduction of money, conceived as non-perishable and value-neutral, quietly bypassed these limits in practice without refuting them in principle.

The paper names this bypass the money exception and demonstrates how it reverses the value order of society: life ceases to govern property, and property — measured monetarily — comes to govern life. Drawing on John McMurtry’s Life-Value Onto-Axiology, the paper distinguishes between life-sequence and money-sequence systems and explains why money-governed systems reliably generate ecological degradation, public health failure, and social insecurity while appearing economically successful.

Rather than rejecting markets or private property, the paper argues for restoring the life-grounded conditions that once made them morally intelligible. It reframes contemporary crises as a correctable design flaw in the moral architecture of political economy and offers a coherent basis for re-embedding money, markets, and property within the requirements of life itself.

THE COHERENCE OPERATING SYSTEM: Rewriting Law, Governance, and Civilization for the Ecological Century | ChatGPT5.1 & NotebookLM

Humanity is facing not multiple crises but a single, systemic disorder: the global breakdown of coherence across biological, ecological, social, economic, and informational systems. Climate destabilization, chronic disease, biodiversity collapse, digital manipulation, democratic erosion, and intergenerational injustice all stem from the same underlying architecture — a civilization built on extraction, fragmentation, and short-termism.

This book introduces the Coherence Operating System (Coherence OS), a new governance paradigm shaped by the science of complex systems, developmental biology, systems ecology, social neuroscience, Indigenous worldviews, and the mathematics of relational patterns. Coherence OS redefines governance around four conditions for flourishing: viable bodies, viable communities, viable ecosystems, and viable futures.

The book offers technical and philosophical foundations; a comprehensive policy and legal blueprint; a replacement for Investor–State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) through the Life Tribunal; a metrics architecture for cumulative and intergenerational harm; digital and biotech governance frameworks; economic and financial redesign; and a Caribbean SIDS implementation playbook demonstrating how small nations can lead global transformation.

The Coherence OS reveals that life has always operated by relational grammar — patterns of resonance, reciprocity, and regeneration across scales. When governance aligns with those patterns, societies flourish. When it diverges, collapse accelerates. This work charts a pathway toward a life-coherent civilization rooted in truth, responsibility, and the interdependence of all beings.

The Inversion of Value: Reclaiming Labor, Life, and the Foundations of a Regenerative Economy | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

This white paper investigates the civilizational significance of Abraham Lincoln’s assertion that “labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.” Lincoln’s insight clarifies a fundamental ordering of value: life generates labor, labor generates value, and capital is stored value. When capital is subordinated to life, economies are capable of renewal. When capital is mistaken as primary and life is made secondary, economic and social systems become extractive and unstable.

Modern industrial and financial systems have inverted this relationship. Labor is treated as a cost, life as a resource, and capital as the presumed origin of wealth. This inversion underlies rising inequality, ecological breakdown, social fragmentation, and the erosion of meaning in work and community life.

This paper reconstructs a coherent framework in which life is primary, labor is expressive intelligence, value is defined as that which supports the continuation of life, and capital is a tool that must be guided by this purpose. It outlines economic structures, institutional forms, and cultural practices that support regeneration rather than extraction.

The conclusion is not ideological but structural: sustainable economies are those in which capital serves life. Regenerative civilization begins with remembering this order.

From Cancer Stage to Coherence: A Regenerative Framework for Planetary Survival | ChatGPT5

The convergence of climate instability, biodiversity collapse, resource scarcity, and social inequality signals not isolated crises, but a unified systemic emergency. Drawing on the PNAS Nexus “Earth at Risk” report and John McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology, this article frames the planetary predicament as the “cancer stage of capitalism,” wherein an economic system grows uncontrollably, consumes its host, and ignores feedback until collapse. We argue for a shift from extractive growth to regenerative coherence — a systemic re-alignment of human economies, institutions, and cultures with the life-support systems of the Earth. The article introduces the Nested Host Coherence Map, a multi-scalar design for aligning individual, community, national, and planetary systems around the universal provisioning of life necessities. By integrating ecological science, economic reform, and moral philosophy, we outline actionable pathways for replacing extractive capitalism with a regenerative economy grounded in care, reciprocity, and justice. The choice before us is stark: evolve or perish.

Life-Coherence Monetary Governance: A Policy Framework for Debt, Credit, and Fiscal Sovereignty in Service of Life | ChatGPT5

The prevailing global monetary architecture is structurally misaligned with the conditions required for long-term human and ecological flourishing. Rising household indebtedness, speculative credit growth, and the under-provision of universal life necessities have converged to produce chronic instability, widening inequality, and systemic ecological degradation. Conventional monetary policy, grounded in the loanable funds and neutrality of money doctrines, remains ill-equipped to address these challenges. This paper presents the Life-Coherence Monetary Governance Model, an integrated policy framework that synthesizes Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA) as a normative compass, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) as an operational foundation, and the complementary insights of Steve Keen’s “stock” approach to private debt management and Richard Werner’s “flow” approach to credit allocation.

The model positions the Life-Value Impact Assessment (LVIA) as a binding precondition for all monetary and fiscal actions, embeds a debt-jubilee mechanism targeted at life-necessity debt overhangs, and establishes a credit-guidance taxonomy to channel new lending toward productive, ecologically regenerative uses. By aligning sovereign fiscal capacity with universal life necessities and regulating the stock and flow of credit within real-resource constraints, the framework aims to deliver macroeconomic stability, equitable prosperity, and ecological resilience. The paper outlines the theoretical foundations, policy instruments, institutional arrangements, and evaluation metrics required for effective implementation, and concludes with a call to reorient monetary governance toward the preservation and expansion of life’s carrying capacity.

Anthropocene Economics and Design: Heterodox Economics for Design Transitions | Joanna Boehnert | She Ji

Highlights

Design has a role to play in facilitating heterodox economic transitions.

Climate change makes ecologically engaged economics and design an imperative.

Visualizations are tools to conceptualize and reconceptualize economic ideas, models, and more.

Economies are complex systems that can be mapped using visual strategies.

Redirected, distributed, regenerative economies are viable alternatives.

Abstract

Economics is a field under fierce contestation. In response to the intersecting challenges of the Anthropocene, scholars who take a broader and more critical view of current economic models have described the shortcomings of orthodox economic theory along with the severe consequences of its systemic discounting of the environment. Heterodox economists describe how the logic of neoclassical and neoliberal economics disregards the interests and needs of the natural world, women, workers, and other historically disadvantaged groups. Explorations of the household, the state, and the commons as alternative economies open space at the intersection of economics and design for incorporating and valuing the provisioning services provided by the ecological context and the undervalued work provided by certain groups of people. Design theorists, economists, social and cultural theorists, and anthropologists describe the relationship between value and values in ways that reveal how sustainable and socially just futures depend on the priorities (notions of value) embedded in the systems that determine what is designed. With these ideas, design can contribute to economic transitions with conceptualizing, modeling, mapping, framing, and other future making practices. Ecologically engaged, heterodox economics is a basis for societal responses to climate change on a scale that can make a difference.