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Decoherence of Social Systems Summary

Why do the best ideas produce the worst outcomes? Saint-Simon sacrificed his fortune, his title, and his health to build a fairer world. Marx devoted his life to liberating the working class. The architects of liberal democracy genuinely believed in human dignity. Yet every system they created — however noble its origin — ended by devouring the people it promised to serve.

This audiobook argues that the problem is not in the ideas. It is in the principle itself.

Human needs have not changed in three hundred thousand years. Man wants to eat, to be safe, to belong, to be recognized, to realize himself. These needs were satisfied through direct connections — person to person, hand to bread, neighbor to neighbor — long before anyone proposed a theory about how society should work.

Every "bright idea" — from Saint-Simon's industrial utopia to the free market, from democracy to communism — performs the same operation: it severs the direct connection between man and the satisfaction of his needs and inserts itself as mediator. And every mediator, once established, begins to serve itself.

Drawing on the formal persistence framework, the Asymmetry of Totalizing Ideals, the Theorem of Incompatible Truths, and the phase-transition model of social dynamics, this monograph demonstrates — with mathematical rigor — that ideological constructs are not failed medicines but structural pathologies: neoplasms that grow autonomously, consume the resources of their host, resist elimination, and metastasize across domains.

Saint-Simon is not the villain of this audiobook. He is its most sympathetic figure — a good man caught in a principle that spares no one. Through his life, his teachings, and their aftermath, we see the anatomy of a disease that has afflicted every civilization: the belief that a correct idea can replace a living connection.

It cannot. And this audiobook shows why.

©2026 Boris Kriger (P)2026 Boris Kriger
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  • Book 1

    Response to Automation-Driven Labour Displacement: Adaptive Universal Transaction Tax and Request-Based Universal Basic Incom

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    Decentralised Urbanism, Autonomous Habitation, and Adaptive Population Dynamics: A Systems-Theoretic Framework (Monograph) co

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    A UNIFIED STRUCTURAL THEORY OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS: DOCTORAL THESIS (Monograph) cover art

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    The Topology of REM Mentation (Dreams): Attractors, Affective Projections, and the Dual-Regime Architecture of Consciousness

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    A Formal Theory of Genre Persistence, Applied to the Medieval Latin Bestiary: Adaptive Pedagogical Systems with Invariant Ker

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    Testing Nothingness and Evaluating the Inevitability of Life: A Deductive Chain from Being to Persistence, Intelligence, and

    • Testing Nothingness and Evaluating the Inevitability of Life: A Deductive Chain from Being to Persistence, Intelligence, and the Limits of Inquiry (Monograph)

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    Adaptive Observer Theory: Navigation of Incompleteness and Incompatibility (Monograph) cover art

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    Structural Necessity Theory: Mathematical Isomorphism, Self-Consistent Constants, and the Epistemic Architecture of Physical

    • Structural Necessity Theory: Mathematical Isomorphism, Self-Consistent Constants, and the Epistemic Architecture of Physical Law (Monograph)

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    A Dark-Sector-Free Cosmology: Local Gravity of Quantum Vacuum (αLGQV) (Monograph) cover art

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    The Architecture of Concealment: A Mathematical Theory of Secrecy from Cells to Civilizations (Monograph) cover art

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    THE CONSISTENT UNIVERSE (αLGQV Theory): SINGULARITIES RESOLVED, DARK SECTOR DISSOLVED, PARAMETERS DERIVED (Monograph) c

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    THE NEW SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE (Monograph) cover art
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    LOCKE WITHOUT METAPHYSICS (Monograph) cover art
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    THE STRUCTURAL THEORY OF WISDOM: Operational Foundation and Methodology (Monograph) cover art

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    IMAGINARY COMPONENT ATTRIBUTION SWAPS THEORY (ICAST): A COMPLEX-ALGEBRA IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS (Monograph) cover art

    • IMAGINARY COMPONENT ATTRIBUTION SWAPS THEORY (ICAST): A COMPLEX-ALGEBRA IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS (Monograph)

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    αLGQV Theory Predictions Confirmed : NANOGrav, P-ACT, DESI, Big Ring (Monograph) cover art

    • αLGQV Theory Predictions Confirmed : NANOGrav, P-ACT, DESI, Big Ring (Monograph)

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    Topology of Quantum Chromodynamics and Isotopology: The Extension of αLGQV and ICAST to the Strong Sector (Monograph) c

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    Structural Persistence and Coherence Analysis: A Topological–Dissipative Method Across Physical (Monograph) cover art

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