DECONSTRUCTING BABYLON #002 - WHY WE MUST UNPLUG FROM THE ENTROPIC MACHINE🦎⚛️
Have you ever felt like you are working harder and harder just to stay in the same place? Like the wealth of our beautiful Northland is being siphoned off while our roads crumble and our whānau struggle to keep a roof over their heads? This isn't just "bad luck" or "poor management." It is the intended output of an operating system we call Babylon. And if we want a future for our mokopuna, we have to do more than just complain about it—we have to disrupt it.
In the Quantum Whakapapa framework, "Babylon" isn't just an ancient city; it represents the colonial state and the economic system of Chrematistics. While Ekonomia is the art of managing a household for the well-being of its members, Chrematistics is the art of accumulating money for its own sake. The word Chrematistics was invented by the Greek philosopher, Aristototle, and I’m pretty sure he didn’t use it in a complimentary way.
Babylon functions as a high-entropy engine. In physics, entropy is a measure of disorder. Babylon stays "ordered" by extracting life force (Mauri) from regions like Te Tai Tokerau and exporting it. We see this clearly in our "Leaky Bucket" economy. When we export 61% of our timber as raw logs, we are exporting "embodied energy"—the decades of sunlight and soil nutrients that grew those trees. In return, we get back paper or electronic money that we immediately spend on imported goods, leaving us with the "disorder": the slash on the hills, the silt in the harbours, and low-wage jobs. Babylon thrives by consuming the Mauri of its host.
We disrupt Babylon by moving from a state of "Approved Entropy" to "Indigenous Negentropy". We stop playing their game and start building our own. This means:
Plugging the Leaks: We must transition to the "Economic Pā"—a circular ecosystem that retains wealth, energy, and data within our community.
Changing the Metric: We stop measuring success by GDP (which Babylon loves) and start measuring it by Mauri using the Mauri Model. If a project makes money but destroys the water (-2 Te Taiao), it is a Babylonian failure, not a success.
Asserting Sovereignty: We return to He Whakaputanga as our digital and physical source code. We act as "Universal Constructors" who solve our own problems using our own logic.
Disrupting Babylon starts with a change in your "Observer Effect". Stop seeing yourself as a consumer in a global market and start seeing yourself as a kaitiaki in an entangled web. Support our local "Islands of Negentropy" like the Ngāwhā Innovation Park or Te Hiku Media. The transition from the "Leaky Bucket" to the "Economic Pā" is underway. It’s time to choose which system you are feeding.
