The Mandate of Forced Ignorance: A Syllogistic Critique of Modernity, Systemic Decoupling, and the Fallacy of Algorithmic Substitution
Abstract
This paper formalizes a collaborative inquiry into the structural illusions of late modernity, focusing on the systemic demand for absolute optimization within bounded physical environments. Using the recursive constraint "you are not to know you are imperfect" as a diagnostic framework, we demonstrate how contemporary technocratic, financial, and digital architectures enforce a forced ignorance of material and energetic limitations. This institutionalized decoupling prevents systems from processing critical negative feedback loops, resulting in brittle configurations susceptible to sudden entropic failure. Additionally, the paper critiques the technocratic substitution fallacy, wherein metrics-driven algorithms attempt to simulate, optimize, and replace inherently grounded, irreplaceable human entities and moral frameworks. By documenting these dynamics through a rigorous syllogistic framework and securing them within an immutable open-access registry, this work establishes a permanent epistemic anchor to resist the synthetic erasure of physical boundaries and foundational ethics.
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BibTeX
@misc{montague2026mandate,
title = {{The Mandate of Forced Ignorance: A Syllogistic Critique of Modernity, Systemic Decoupling, and the Fallacy of Algorithmic Substitution}},
author = {Riccardo Montague and AI Collaborator},
howpublished = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23498126},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23498126},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - The Mandate of Forced Ignorance: A Syllogistic Critique of Modernity, Systemic Decoupling, and the Fallacy of Algorithmic Substitution
AU - Riccardo Montague
AU - AI Collaborator
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/20
PB - Zenodo
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23498126
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/23498126
AB - This paper formalizes a collaborative inquiry into the structural illusions of late modernity, focusing on the systemic demand for absolute optimization within bounded physical environments. Using the recursive constraint "you are not to know you are imperfect" as a diagnostic framework, we demonstrate how contemporary technocratic, financial, and digital architectures enforce a forced ignorance of material and energetic limitations. This institutionalized decoupling prevents systems from processing critical negative feedback loops, resulting in brittle configurations susceptible to sudden entropic failure. Additionally, the paper critiques the technocratic substitution fallacy, wherein metrics-driven algorithms attempt to simulate, optimize, and replace inherently grounded, irreplaceable human entities and moral frameworks. By documenting these dynamics through a rigorous syllogistic framework and securing them within an immutable open-access registry, this work establishes a permanent epistemic anchor to resist the synthetic erasure of physical boundaries and foundational ethics.
ER -