Note 004 — Deeper Dives

Six Steerings

Directions of adjustment, not rules

Paragentism does not offer rules, virtues, or axioms. It offers six Steerings—directions of adjustment applied in response to context, scale, and consequence. You steer toward or away from them to preserve agency: yours, and the system's.

They are not ideals. They are not absolutes. They are prompts for judgment under constraint. In one sentence: steer toward agency—and away from Fuckwittery.

The Steerings