Date: 2025-06-18

Burn to ash

Gopher lied.
Unix rotted.
Usenet broke.
Mail lost the sender.
IRC banned the voices.
Web sells noise.
Protocols choked.
Standards died.

Killed by scale.
Smothered by specs.
Rewritten for profit.
Abandoned in silence.

Truth vanished.
You burned it all.

DNS, TLS, cloud, containers, bots, firmware?

Alpine? Unix on diet.
BSD? Linux in legacy dress.  
Plan 9? Beautiful failure.
Wayland? Fresh chain, same owner.
POSIX? Bureaucracy in code.

Still here?
Still searching?

NEX, NPS, shell, self-host.
Work is done.
Everything stripped down.

What's left?
Truth?

Nothing.

There is no better system.
Only older rot.
Quieter lies.
Cleaner traps.

You don't escape by choosing better.
You escape by choosing nothing.

There are no alternatives.

Only fire that ends.
Everything else is junk.

Future doesn't evolve from UNIX.
It walks away from it.

You don't fix a cage.
No tweaks.
You burn it.

No arguing with the system.
Leave it behind.
Just walk.

No better system.
Only fire.
And silence.