Critique, in a Kantian sense, is the process of identifying and dismantling metaphysical assumptions by setting the limits of what can be known or done. Its primary target is any transcendent authority—a god, a state, a central bank—that claims to ground reality from outside the system.Bitcoin is the practical, automated execution of this critique. It is a network that is peer-to-peer or flat, meaning it has no center of authority. The removal of the "trusted third party" (the transcendent element) is not just a feature; it *is* the critique in action.A network is a critique. And modernity, as the work of critique, produces formal flatness.The decentralized network, having performed the critique of traditional trust, must produce a route around politics, censorship, and the macroeconomic management of central banks. Bitcoin represents the escape of money, and by extension capital, from the control of the state. This is the nightmare for the left, as it is the ultimate expression of depoliticization.The autonomous cybernetic process—the Crypto-Current—is indifferent to human authority and is driving history toward a new, computationally-grounded, and inhuman order.
