The dragonfly emerges

stephen marshall
3 min readApr 9, 2021

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Nine things you need to know about the surfacing quantum society.

1/9 We are witnessing the birth of the quantum society (QS), which is the successor of the market society. In practical terms, this is the shift from a deterministic application of reality to a generative one that will have tectonic implications for our systems.

What does that mean?

2/9 The market society is the ultimate expression of the reductionist/materialist paradigm. It is a society which universally asserts the market’s authority to assign/determine value to all terrestrial resources, including human ‘capital’.

3/9 Once productized, we are atomized. Taught from the earliest of ages to maximize our potential in order to sell our value into the market. Where we become components of a de-spiritualized materialist, industrial mechanism. And where our destiny is wholly dependent on a spectrum of external, determined market forces.

4/9 Quantum society is the direct inversion of the market society. Because constituents of the quantum society gain agency and power by entraining their thoughts and actions to the features of the surfacing hyperobject of the quantum field — entanglement, complementarity etc.

5/9 At the subatomic level — which only a reductionist would claim has no connection to our economic and political experiences — we are a limitless domain of infinite potential. This is where we potentiate our experience at the wave-to-particle conversion plane that we know as 3D.

‘Emergence’ (photo by Stephen Darlington)

6/9 The quantum society — which is being materialized as a procedural milestone of human evolution, and not as some human-driven effort — ‘generates’ its social/political/economic experiences from the quantum field.

7/9 The market ‘paradigm’ — which at this stage is governed and administrated by intelligent algorithms — understands this existential threat. It knows that in order to maintain its control and authority over a population that has the innate power to generate its experiences, it must convince them that ‘reality’ is deterministic so they continue to ‘generate’ the market paradigm.

8/9 This is because at the cornerstone of a stable quantum society [in which humans have access to their reality-generating creative agency] there is the need for a paradigmatic authority. One that governs the central organizing narrative which, as Yuval Noah Harari told us, is a figment of our imagination. Otherwise it’s bedlam. The market paradigm has provided this cosmological ballast for 200 years, superceding and augmenting the reductionist scientific paradigm, which arose from the Copernican revolution. These are both in decline now.

9/9 When you begin to see the ‘world’ through these eyes, you will find yourself in the depths of a Platonic Cave, shackled to stare upward at a sphere upon which some phantom minority are parading the shadows of a reality we cannot alter or disrupt.

This is the long-awaited moment of emergence.

10/9 Aspirational addendum: the role of the quantum initiate is to actualize the new world by grasping its parameters. And to begin the process of scrubbing our genetic and experiential programming of false narratives so that we can generate without being hijacked by old programs.

Note: I use the image of the dragonfly in these conversations because its metamorphosis is the closest biological analogy that exists to what we are experiencing. It is also the symbol of Gene Key 55, which advents the shift from victimization — the defining illusion in the reductionist-market paradigm — to freedom — which is the new currency for all who (re)awaken to their quantum potential.

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stephen marshall
stephen marshall

Written by stephen marshall

system architect • quantum socialist • wonder junkie

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