Why do our biggest arguments, about AI and about economies before it, keep landing on a line (accelerate or brake, capitalism or Marxism), and what if the two ends are one shape and its mirror?
A door in (a seed): Friday evening, the office fridge. One note says MY SHELF, MY LUNCH; the one taped over it says SHARED FRIDGE, SHARED FOOD. The intern opens the door and asks who cleans it. Nobody in the argument knows.
Laffer Chirality is a new concept in this book, still being defined. It puts two ideas together. The Laffer curve is an old, much-disputed argument about tax: that past some point, a higher rate can bring in less. Chirality is the property of a shape and its mirror image: alike in every part, yet never the same when laid one on the other.
The chapter asks whether our false dichotomies are chiral: one shape, mirrored, arguing with itself on the same plane. ReGrowth looks for the axis orthogonal to all of them. How the curve and the mirror combine is the open question, which is why this chapter is still a seed.
Its opening is already a checked essay, They’re Arguing About the Pedal: accelerate or brake is a fine argument if the only controls are stop and go, and there is also a steering wheel.
A line it may earn (a seed): One other axis might be: not whose it is, but who answers for it.
Sections planned so far
- Same plane, false dichotomies
- The curve
- The mirror
- True at which layer?
The image it turns on: the pedal: a debate about speed while direction, ownership and purpose go unexamined.
This chapter might instead be called Same Plane, False Dichotomies.
A seed: its opening argument is a checked essay; the concept itself is sketched with AI from the author’s notes and is still his to define; its door and line come from the studio’s reading.
Leans on Regrowth, Not Degrowth and Sutra of the Sāmatvārtha Mandala. Leads to Pareto-Normal and SuperPositivity. Read now: They’re Arguing About the Pedal, a checked essay.