Since the dawn of agriculture ten thousand years ago, human civilization has relied on normalized cognitive dissonances - comfortable lies that served survival, adaptation, and flourishing. The anthropologist calls them myths. The theologian calls them principalities and powers. The systems theorist calls them stable equilibria built on false premises.

Janus Facing Applications replace siloed interfaces with transparent architectures where all participants access complete system information

The internet's current centralization didn't happen because of superior technology or inevitable network effects. It happened because venture capital created herds—user bases driven by momentum, switching costs, and the gravitational pull of "where everyone else is."