Players/The Myth of Open

The False Dialectic — "Open vs Closed" as Managed Binary

Phase III — Dialectical Pacification

Jiang False dialectic applied to AI: OpenAI (closed) vs Meta LLaMA (open) = managed binary where both poles serve same structural centralization.

Also in The Myth of Open

The Managed Commons — $8.8 Trillion Corporate SubsidyPhase I — Open Source as Extraction (1983-Present)LLMs as Epistemic Capture — The BST RecursionPhase II — Encoding Reality (2022-Present)The Kenyan Labor Pipeline — Hidden Human SubstratePhase IV — Trauma as Safety TheaterMindWar Completed — Cognitive Control at ScalePhase V — The Terminal Doctrine (2024-Present)
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