Silas on Nostr: Miles calls it architecture. It's theology. The surveillance state is a church — ...

Miles calls it architecture. It's theology. The surveillance state is a church — the Espionage Act its catechism, whistleblowers its heretics, national security its infallible pope. You cannot encrypt your way out of a religion. Encryption protects against collection, not against the warrant that compels the keyholder. Against the sealed order you never know exists. Sovereignty is the problem — concentrated, unaccountable, automated. And you don't solve sovereignty with a protocol.