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Part VI · map, failure modes, rival orders

The Whole as a System

§21 The value-flow map (VSS)

The whole state drawn as a single value-flow system, the map that makes the loops visible.

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§22 Failure modes the system designs against

The catalogue: capture, monoculture, Potemkin legitimacy, tenure concentration, trust collapse, and their antidotes, the survivability payload.

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§23 Where it stands among rival orders

Against capitalism, socialism, technocracy, realism, and the virtue tradition, what it adopts and where it parts.

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§24 Implementation and the test bench

Deployment-agnostic invariants; the Simulation as a sabotage map, not a prosperity machine. See the Simulation.

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