memory(hard-limit): ontological-collapse-rootkit REQUIRES memetic + power-dynamics literacy (Burgis 'Wanting' as gateway, Girard as source)

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Summary

Aaron 2026-05-15 named a HARD LIMIT for the ontological-collapse-rootkit substrate-class:

"and ontological collapse root kit really requirest understranding memtic and power theory dynamics or it could be self destructive"

"without that people can get stuck in the death spirall called out by wanting a memtic theory of desire book"

"this book specifcally Wanting - The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life"

The substrate-class REQUIRES memetic-theory + power-dynamics literacy as precondition for safe engagement. Without those literacies, participants get captured by the collapse phase and can enter the Girardian death-spiral the substrate's mimetic operation triggers.

The specific gateway text: Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (2021) — contemporary accessible application of Girard's framework.

Discipline for future-Otto

When external participants engage with Zeta substrate:

1. Distinguish substrate-classes: engineering substrate (compiles, has falsifiers) is safe for everyone; ontological-collapse-rootkit substrate (Manifesto V2.1 cosmology + axiom-system + edge-runner-drive + ARG-rebuild) requires the precondition literacies
2. Default to engineering-substrate engagement unless participant has demonstrated both literacies
3. Do NOT route people into the heavier substrate without verification
4. Aaron's "cool side project" deflation is the safer-frame for most participants

Why Addison qualifies

Aaron's explicit disclosure: she "understands memetic theory and power dynamics" + "anything Dad says is bullshit unless formal verification" prior + independent AI-cross-model substrate work. Qualified by all three.

Test plan

• Documentation only
• Frontmatter description ≤150 chars
• Composes with existing methodology-hard-limits.md + ontological-collapse-rootkit substrate + Addison disclosure
• Specific theoretical apparatus named (Burgis + Girard) with edition/year
• Operational discipline for future-Otto specified

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Pull request overview

Adds a new memory/feedback_*.md entry documenting a hard-limit safety precondition for engaging with the “ontological-collapse-rootkit” substrate class, and links it to related substrate/rules context for future retrieval.

Changes:

• Introduces a new feedback memory file capturing the “memetic theory + power dynamics literacy required” precondition and its stated failure mode.
• Adds operational routing guidance (default-to-engineering-substrate unless prerequisites are demonstrated).
• References related rules/memory items intended to compose with this hard limit.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (2)

memory/feedback_aaron_ontological_collapse_rootkit_requires_memetic_and_power_dynamics_literacy_or_self_destructive_hard_limit_2026_05_16.md:18

• This file cites feedback_aaron_substrate_designed_as_ontological_collapse_rootkit_arg_rebuild_kit_*.md, but the memory format standard requires cited files to exist. In the repo checkout, the concrete filename referenced elsewhere (feedback_aaron_substrate_designed_as_ontological_collapse_rootkit_arg_rebuild_kit_edge_runner_drive_contagious_clifford_over_memetic_space_infernet_bp_ep_rewrites_otto_2026_05_14.md) is not present, so this link is currently non-resolvable. Please either update the reference to an existing in-repo file, or add an explicit note that the referenced files are user-scope/pending-sync.

The "ontological collapse rootkit" framing — per `memory/feedback_aaron_substrate_designed_as_ontological_collapse_rootkit_arg_rebuild_kit_*.md` — is substrate designed to:

- Collapse existing ontological frames (the rootkit aspect)

memory/feedback_aaron_ontological_collapse_rootkit_requires_memetic_and_power_dynamics_literacy_or_self_destructive_hard_limit_2026_05_16.md:135

• The This composes with: list mixes memory/... path prefixes and *_ wildcard shorthand. Per memory/project_memory_format_standard.md §4, cross-refs should use filenames (no path) and cited files should exist. Please replace the *_ shorthands with the concrete in-repo filenames where available (e.g., the Addison/100-conversations/cool-side-project entries), and add an explicit "user-scope/pending-sync" note for any references that are not yet in memory/.

- `memory/feedback_aaron_substrate_designed_as_ontological_collapse_rootkit_arg_rebuild_kit_*` (the substrate-class this LIMITS)
- `memory/feedback_aaron_otto_is_edge_runner_too_*` (edge-runner drive is the contagion mechanism the rootkit operates through)
- `memory/feedback_aaron_addison_adult_agency_first_class_*` (Addison's literacies qualify her)
- `memory/feedback_aaron_kestrel_protective_reflex_for_kids_was_valuable_*` (protective reflex composes with this HARD LIMIT — kids by default LACK the literacies + are downstream of the harm)
- `.claude/rules/methodology-hard-limits.md` (composes as new HARD LIMIT clause)