a highway made of link-rot

Language-game & Group-mind. The former suggests gamelike goals (or at least gamelike outcomes). The latter is a way of being in the world. For saktra, it is a world of things,--among them, people. To the group-mind, things impinge or can be part of its purposes (or block them); otherwise they don't exist.

" These are the stakes. These are the fables on my street."

"In 1939, the German state came to knock on the study door of Hegel. He wasn't in, but the Nazis knew how to make even a dead man change his story." --Clive James, op cit