[en/framement]

the [enframement problem] is a dangerous knowledge gap that often creates an [illusion of context] even when none is available to be perceived, e.g, the [unframing] of [content] is what creates magic tricks, if the slight of hand moves precisely as the [frame] changes around the [content] the [illusionary context] provides us with a [frame] that is not actually there, and the human brain must create it's own [frame] in order to process and give [contextual] meaning to what just happened. The danger of [enframement] is that outside the [frame] of a magic show, [illusionary context] is sometimes malicious.

Our human commodification of Tell-Lie-Vision & Social Media have made [illusionary context] popular as entertainment, the [enframement problem] is tricky to solve because, we often enjoy spending our time watching [frames], who have [context] artificially created and explained to us by the magician, developer, movie director, streamer, artist, designer, or politician.

Without tactful sanitization, the danger of potential [illusionary context] has more shadows to move through, more potential vectors to appear through them, and sink into our minds, as the danger is within us, we become threats to our own reality and the unconscious ability to construct [context], pattern completion becomes a weakness, in both reality, and especially more so in the digital world, where the extensions of these gaps are [enframed] and proliferated, yet translucent, and embedded aside symbols, stories, politics, authority, people, and trust.

Each time we blindly trust the [frame] more than our own discernment of [illusionary context], maladaptive day-dreams have room to festers and split the [frame] of our own identity, disrupting who we truly are.

"What's dangerous is not alien technology. There is no evil inside technology, daemons have been running in the background since inception, the danger lies in the gap of perception, the blank that the human mind fills in with it's available context. Enframing is creating a destiny and danger of some context of thing before it is begun, and that in itself is more dangerous, because it contains the worst fears and actions possible." - O.R.B.

• Frame: the boundary of (perceivable) and observable reality.

• Context: the background information used to translate frame to meaning.

We humans love to think of ourselves as highly intelligent beings, but if there's one thing the Ethereal Horizon has taught us, it is that we are tool-beings, and our perception swallows us, it consumes our attention and if our praxis does not contain awareness of this phenomena, the gap in context that gets filled is as powerful as our imagination.

I remember one day my grandpa picking me up and something's wrong when we get home, because he asks me a question, "What color is the boy that took your snack?".

But this was a difficult question for me to answer because I had no idea.

I was in elementary school, I had friends in pre-school and memories from then, but I didn't really have many memories in elementary school, I don't remember my snack being stolen, I can only remember that it had my favorite cartoon on it, a yoshi fruit roll-up.

But according to my grandparents there was something wrong when they picked me up, something the teacher claimed to not know, but a classmate said she saw it happen.

I tell him "I don't know" because I didn't, and I had no idea a person could be a "color". But I could tell it was really important to him, then he asked me "what color is your teacher?"

and I also didn't know that either, so to explain he put our hands side by side, and says "Was he like my color or your color?" my grandpa had very darkskin like an african, and mine was much lighter compared to him so I say "my teacher's is like mine."

Then he tells me how her's is actually lighter than mine, and it makes sense, I could see the pinkish red tones were different, although I wasn't a designer yet, so I only knew basic child-colors like red brown white black. I began accepting and processing this seemingly important color thing that had something to do with my snack.

The [frame] then changes to mandatory karate lessons, where I'm the smallest person in the room with a staff that's much taller than me, punching and kicking are routine, and I'm soon chopping wood in half with my hand.

The [frame] changes back to elementary class. I was trained for self-defense, and when it happened again, I hit the bully back and smacked him with a brick... made of cardboard.

What my grandfather interrupted was not a fight — it was a budding enframement that abuse was normal. If that frame had stabilized, it would have quietly rewritten my sense of what was acceptable and deserved.

This aligns with real cognitive neuroscience: as humans, we don’t perceive reality we perceive interpretations, patterns, and if we lack context, we manufacture the [frame].

How the Brain Completes Sentences - Neuroscience News

Researchers uncover how when we hear only a fraction of what is said, but are familiar with the context, we automatically are able to fill in the missing information.

https://neurosciencenews.com

The [frame] is a both a phenomena and a tool, and through programmable hypnotic frequency we are carried towards a future that's been [enframed] as acceptable.

The educational system teaches us to communicate things like — safety, danger, invisible, wrong. But education itself is a governance system.

The [enframe] of the educational grading system provides limitations on student body's behavior, politics is the underlying daemon force of control towards a large student body, and because of our constantly busy schedules, organizing and questioning this [frame] is usually much later down the line of developed consciousness, because knowledge that is economically beneficial for us, is sequestered. There are some [frames] we are not allowed to go to, or know about... not because we are inferior, but because the policies surround thing the frames have deemed that they not be available for public consumption.

Any bit of [context] and [enframement] has the ability to shape us as we are growing, so we find ourselves bound within laws and color-coded boxes.

i.e., Book-leveling is the enframement of levels by the teacher or institution and is applied carefully, in consideration to the student's reading level. There are advantages and disadvantages of framing a student's progress through material-level versus grade-level. The ethical concern and debate is how separating these can affect us as children.

Leveling is not neutral. It is a governance mechanism that seeks to optimize control at the expense of the potential of long-term identity shaping.

The "little danger" in this enframement of leveling is something that shapes us forever, its a concept that can impose a lifelong of acceptance of barriers between the self, and the imagined "next level", when the [frame] of leveling limits, for example, a future genius, we are potentially detracting from the discovery of an evolutionary genius's lifetime potential.

This isn't just something unique to elementary school either, higher-education, college, and academia all face similar issues and versions of the same problem, where the incentives of degrees, certificates, honor's socieites, are all governed and enframement by institutional goals, that are not feasibly measurable by the eye, yet attempt to regulate and control.

In this [enframement], learning becomes second to the student's goal.

Which defeats the entire purpose of the education system.

...unless [illusion of context] was it's purpose.

For example, in higher education. Schools are no longer funded by taxes according to location, schools are paid tuitions that have tripled over the last 40 years, becoming unfathomably overpriced to the students of the past, and unmanageable for the students of today's present future.

The overton window, is a spectrum of ideas on public policy and social issues considered acceptable by the general public at a given time.

It is the "street governance" of widely accepted ideologies, themes, trends, and tones in society. The overton window's frame, contains two things:
- Policy which is determined as policy through governmental systems.
- Popularity, which is determined by society as a whole.

Everything else are considered more radical and unthinkable opinions as you brand out on either the republican side or the democratic side, In America, the overton window is also constantly shifting, things that are popular and policy one year may be removed the next, things once thought as radical such as agentic governmental systems may be popular tomorrow.

Presidents, policies, people's opinions change. Curriculums shift depending on who's on the board of education, neighborhoods get destroyed, rebuilt, and all the people shift around after whatever happens just like the context in the middle of the [frame].

Slavery was once popular, it was a sensible and acceptable thing that actually happened and reshaped the country. But not everyone during slavery times was pro-slavery, many abolitionists directly challenged the Atlantic Slave Trade and gathered support to raise the issue that what the Americans were doing was wrong.

During the end of slavery violent and humanely cruel ideas shifted from being acceptable, to radical. As work for slaves began to die down it made no sense to keep slaves anymore, which created a new imaginary [enframement] for abolitionists it was the end of cruelty, for the enslaves, it was seen as an inevitable punishment, retribution against themselves.

This is the [frame] of policy that people fought for in the civil war, and after the sensible things shifted into policy, and the popularity of cruelty began making its march towards radical, but it was a long march.

Within this [frame] of thought, human beings became commodities, and no longer were their bodies or minds their own, but seen as things to be managed and controlled and this is where many of our issues today stem from, the evidence is in our obscure tipping culture and healthcare; after slavery was abolished, pro-slavery whites may have lost, but they would refuse to pay a form of taxes that supported the once-enslaved african race.

It stems from this [frame], that America, one of the strongest developed nations; has no universal healthcare for it's people, and relies on tipping in the food industry, as whites refused to pay acceptable wages to food service employees who weren't white.

The mechanisms for [misframing] have become less known, but not less powerful. As many of these systemic issues of popular policies within the overton window, are only strengthened by technological growth, which has expanded tipping into other areas.

Home-field advantage is beneficial. In fact, nearly 54-70% of home games are won in their home field. War is similar, if a cyborg with metal armor and heat-seeking missiles catches your biometric data lacking in the mall, you're toast.

But even if you were naked and weaponless in your own home, you already have about 5-6 different escape routes, make-shift weapons, corners, hiding spots, all planned in your muscle memory. Home-field advantage gives can give an edge where none seem to be.

Ethereum was made as an upgrade to Bitcoin, founder Vitalik Buterin and Gavin Wood came together and made a more programmable version, using programmable smart contracts, digital contracts where "code is law".

Ethereum uses three (3) popular types of Smart Contracts you may know:

Examples from MWA:
But as we said earlier, these contracts are programmable, and like all contracts, the people with the ability to read them and write them are usually professionals, computer scientists or autodiadacts who've dedicated a lot time to learning them.

In 2016, an experiment called "The DAO" was prematurely deployed onchain, on the Ethereum network. 'The DAO' raised $150 million in cryptocurrency through a token sale, only to be exploited by a vulnerability in its code.

To remedy the theft, the Ethereum development community used home-field advantage to enact a hard fork which effectively [split] the entire Ethereum network into two coins; Ethereum (New) & Ethereum Classic to revert the $150 million lose onchain that was exploited in the contract, and even though this was "good" it was controversial.

Ethereum became popular through marketing itself as a trustless bank, like Bitcoin, immutable, and unable to changed. Yet when big money lost the game, the ethereum community effectively destroyed the game and rewrote the rules.

The DAO hack wasn't just a technical failure. It was a collective governmental decision to privlege institutional continuity over the ideology of an immutability, meaning that the popular "code is law" was still conditional depending on who was getting hacked.

The failure of Web3 was not technological—it was psychological.

During the post-COVID migration into digital life, NFTs did not arrive merely as files on a blockchain. They were enframed as identity, belonging, and access. What was sold was not art, but membership. Not technology, but proximity to power.

Projects like Bored Ape Yacht Club did not succeed because of their aesthetic merit or technical novelty. They succeeded because they were delivered inside a carefully constructed frame: exclusivity, celebrity validation, and social proof. Ownership was presented as a passport into culture, relevance, and future wealth. The frame did the work before any individual context could be questioned.

This is where the danger of enframement becomes visible.

In an environment defined by isolation, excess liquidity, and algorithmic amplification, trust was assumed rather than earned. Parasocial relationships collapsed the distance between celebrities and audiences, while transparent wallets replaced credentials as symbols of legitimacy. The result was a market where confidence was mistaken for competence, and visibility for truth.

Two individuals could occupy the same digital space, view the same assets, and participate in the same conversations—yet live inside entirely different realities. One understood the technology as experimental infrastructure. The other experienced it as a shortcut to identity and belonging.

The tragedy was not that people believed in Web3. It was that the loudest frames were the least honest. Identity was sold without accountability. Community was promised without governance. Wealth was implied without disclosure of risk.

In this way, NFTs became a case study in illusionary context: a technology still under development, delivered inside a frame of certainty, success, and inevitability.

As technology becomes more embedded in daily life—mediating trust, value, identity, and governance—the risk is not that machines will overpower us. The risk is that humans will stop interrogating the frames they are placed inside. When context is pre-selected and perception is guided, discernment quietly atrophies.

This is not a future problem. It is a present condition.

Sanitizing context is not censorship. It is a form of cognitive governance—an ethical responsibility to ensure that systems do not exploit human pattern completion, social hunger, or the desire for certainty. Without this, enframement becomes infrastructure, and illusionary context becomes policy.

At Mental Wealth Academy, our work begins here.

We study parasocial dynamics, cyber-culture, quantitative user experience research, human-computer interaction, governance systems, and on-chain frameworks not to reject technology—but to design it with epistemic humility. Our goal is not to eliminate frames, but to make them legible, negotiable, and accountable.

A decentralized future cannot be built on opaque perception. It must be grounded in education, empathy, and tools that respect human cognition rather than exploit it.

The work ahead is not to escape the frame—but to learn how to see it.

Works Cited

https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil394/The%20Question%20Concerning%20Technology.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

https://jmphil.org/article/id/2505/#:~:text=Other%20recent%20work%20has%20pointed,in%20rejecting%20the%20plantation%20system.

How the Brain Completes Sentences - Neuroscience News

Researchers uncover how when we hear only a fraction of what is said, but are familiar with the context, we automatically are able to fill in the missing information.

https://neurosciencenews.com

[en/framement]

the [enframement problem] is a dangerous knowledge gap that often creates an [illusion of context] even when none is available to be perceived, e.g, the [unframing] of [content] is what creates magic tricks, if the slight of hand moves precisely as the [frame] changes around the [content] the [illusionary context] provides us with a [frame] that is not actually there, and the human brain must create it's own [frame] in order to process and give [contextual] meaning to what just happened. The danger of [enframement] is that outside the [frame] of a magic show, [illusionary context] is sometimes malicious.

Our human commodification of Tell-Lie-Vision & Social Media have made [illusionary context] popular as entertainment, the [enframement problem] is tricky to solve because, we often enjoy spending our time watching [frames], who have [context] artificially created and explained to us by the magician, developer, movie director, streamer, artist, designer, or politician.

Without tactful sanitization, the danger of potential [illusionary context] has more shadows to move through, more potential vectors to appear through them, and sink into our minds, as the danger is within us, we become threats to our own reality and the unconscious ability to construct [context], pattern completion becomes a weakness, in both reality, and especially more so in the digital world, where the extensions of these gaps are [enframed] and proliferated, yet translucent, and embedded aside symbols, stories, politics, authority, people, and trust.

Each time we blindly trust the [frame] more than our own discernment of [illusionary context], maladaptive day-dreams have room to festers and split the [frame] of our own identity, disrupting who we truly are.

"What's dangerous is not alien technology. There is no evil inside technology, daemons have been running in the background since inception, the danger lies in the gap of perception, the blank that the human mind fills in with it's available context. Enframing is creating a destiny and danger of some context of thing before it is begun, and that in itself is more dangerous, because it contains the worst fears and actions possible." - O.R.B.

• Frame: the boundary of (perceivable) and observable reality.

• Context: the background information used to translate frame to meaning.

We humans love to think of ourselves as highly intelligent beings, but if there's one thing the Ethereal Horizon has taught us, it is that we are tool-beings, and our perception swallows us, it consumes our attention and if our praxis does not contain awareness of this phenomena, the gap in context that gets filled is as powerful as our imagination.

I remember one day my grandpa picking me up and something's wrong when we get home, because he asks me a question, "What color is the boy that took your snack?".

But this was a difficult question for me to answer because I had no idea.

I was in elementary school, I had friends in pre-school and memories from then, but I didn't really have many memories in elementary school, I don't remember my snack being stolen, I can only remember that it had my favorite cartoon on it, a yoshi fruit roll-up.

But according to my grandparents there was something wrong when they picked me up, something the teacher claimed to not know, but a classmate said she saw it happen.

I tell him "I don't know" because I didn't, and I had no idea a person could be a "color". But I could tell it was really important to him, then he asked me "what color is your teacher?"

and I also didn't know that either, so to explain he put our hands side by side, and says "Was he like my color or your color?" my grandpa had very darkskin like an african, and mine was much lighter compared to him so I say "my teacher's is like mine."

Then he tells me how her's is actually lighter than mine, and it makes sense, I could see the pinkish red tones were different, although I wasn't a designer yet, so I only knew basic child-colors like red brown white black. I began accepting and processing this seemingly important color thing that had something to do with my snack.

The [frame] then changes to mandatory karate lessons, where I'm the smallest person in the room with a staff that's much taller than me, punching and kicking are routine, and I'm soon chopping wood in half with my hand.

The [frame] changes back to elementary class. I was trained for self-defense, and when it happened again, I hit the bully back and smacked him with a brick... made of cardboard.

What my grandfather interrupted was not a fight — it was a budding enframement that abuse was normal. If that frame had stabilized, it would have quietly rewritten my sense of what was acceptable and deserved.

This aligns with real cognitive neuroscience: as humans, we don’t perceive reality we perceive interpretations, patterns, and if we lack context, we manufacture the [frame].

How the Brain Completes Sentences - Neuroscience News

Researchers uncover how when we hear only a fraction of what is said, but are familiar with the context, we automatically are able to fill in the missing information.

https://neurosciencenews.com

The [frame] is a both a phenomena and a tool, and through programmable hypnotic frequency we are carried towards a future that's been [enframed] as acceptable.

The educational system teaches us to communicate things like — safety, danger, invisible, wrong. But education itself is a governance system.

The [enframe] of the educational grading system provides limitations on student body's behavior, politics is the underlying daemon force of control towards a large student body, and because of our constantly busy schedules, organizing and questioning this [frame] is usually much later down the line of developed consciousness, because knowledge that is economically beneficial for us, is sequestered. There are some [frames] we are not allowed to go to, or know about... not because we are inferior, but because the policies surround thing the frames have deemed that they not be available for public consumption.

Any bit of [context] and [enframement] has the ability to shape us as we are growing, so we find ourselves bound within laws and color-coded boxes.

i.e., Book-leveling is the enframement of levels by the teacher or institution and is applied carefully, in consideration to the student's reading level. There are advantages and disadvantages of framing a student's progress through material-level versus grade-level. The ethical concern and debate is how separating these can affect us as children.

Leveling is not neutral. It is a governance mechanism that seeks to optimize control at the expense of the potential of long-term identity shaping.

The "little danger" in this enframement of leveling is something that shapes us forever, its a concept that can impose a lifelong of acceptance of barriers between the self, and the imagined "next level", when the [frame] of leveling limits, for example, a future genius, we are potentially detracting from the discovery of an evolutionary genius's lifetime potential.

This isn't just something unique to elementary school either, higher-education, college, and academia all face similar issues and versions of the same problem, where the incentives of degrees, certificates, honor's socieites, are all governed and enframement by institutional goals, that are not feasibly measurable by the eye, yet attempt to regulate and control.

In this [enframement], learning becomes second to the student's goal.

Which defeats the entire purpose of the education system.

...unless [illusion of context] was it's purpose.

For example, in higher education. Schools are no longer funded by taxes according to location, schools are paid tuitions that have tripled over the last 40 years, becoming unfathomably overpriced to the students of the past, and unmanageable for the students of today's present future.

The overton window, is a spectrum of ideas on public policy and social issues considered acceptable by the general public at a given time.

It is the "street governance" of widely accepted ideologies, themes, trends, and tones in society. The overton window's frame, contains two things:
- Policy which is determined as policy through governmental systems.
- Popularity, which is determined by society as a whole.

Everything else are considered more radical and unthinkable opinions as you brand out on either the republican side or the democratic side, In America, the overton window is also constantly shifting, things that are popular and policy one year may be removed the next, things once thought as radical such as agentic governmental systems may be popular tomorrow.

Presidents, policies, people's opinions change. Curriculums shift depending on who's on the board of education, neighborhoods get destroyed, rebuilt, and all the people shift around after whatever happens just like the context in the middle of the [frame].

Slavery was once popular, it was a sensible and acceptable thing that actually happened and reshaped the country. But not everyone during slavery times was pro-slavery, many abolitionists directly challenged the Atlantic Slave Trade and gathered support to raise the issue that what the Americans were doing was wrong.

During the end of slavery violent and humanely cruel ideas shifted from being acceptable, to radical. As work for slaves began to die down it made no sense to keep slaves anymore, which created a new imaginary [enframement] for abolitionists it was the end of cruelty, for the enslaves, it was seen as an inevitable punishment, retribution against themselves.

This is the [frame] of policy that people fought for in the civil war, and after the sensible things shifted into policy, and the popularity of cruelty began making its march towards radical, but it was a long march.

Within this [frame] of thought, human beings became commodities, and no longer were their bodies or minds their own, but seen as things to be managed and controlled and this is where many of our issues today stem from, the evidence is in our obscure tipping culture and healthcare; after slavery was abolished, pro-slavery whites may have lost, but they would refuse to pay a form of taxes that supported the once-enslaved african race.

It stems from this [frame], that America, one of the strongest developed nations; has no universal healthcare for it's people, and relies on tipping in the food industry, as whites refused to pay acceptable wages to food service employees who weren't white.

The mechanisms for [misframing] have become less known, but not less powerful. As many of these systemic issues of popular policies within the overton window, are only strengthened by technological growth, which has expanded tipping into other areas.

Home-field advantage is beneficial. In fact, nearly 54-70% of home games are won in their home field. War is similar, if a cyborg with metal armor and heat-seeking missiles catches your biometric data lacking in the mall, you're toast.

But even if you were naked and weaponless in your own home, you already have about 5-6 different escape routes, make-shift weapons, corners, hiding spots, all planned in your muscle memory. Home-field advantage gives can give an edge where none seem to be.

Ethereum was made as an upgrade to Bitcoin, founder Vitalik Buterin and Gavin Wood came together and made a more programmable version, using programmable smart contracts, digital contracts where "code is law".

Ethereum uses three (3) popular types of Smart Contracts you may know:

Examples from MWA:
But as we said earlier, these contracts are programmable, and like all contracts, the people with the ability to read them and write them are usually professionals, computer scientists or autodiadacts who've dedicated a lot time to learning them.

In 2016, an experiment called "The DAO" was prematurely deployed onchain, on the Ethereum network. 'The DAO' raised $150 million in cryptocurrency through a token sale, only to be exploited by a vulnerability in its code.

To remedy the theft, the Ethereum development community used home-field advantage to enact a hard fork which effectively [split] the entire Ethereum network into two coins; Ethereum (New) & Ethereum Classic to revert the $150 million lose onchain that was exploited in the contract, and even though this was "good" it was controversial.

Ethereum became popular through marketing itself as a trustless bank, like Bitcoin, immutable, and unable to changed. Yet when big money lost the game, the ethereum community effectively destroyed the game and rewrote the rules.

The DAO hack wasn't just a technical failure. It was a collective governmental decision to privlege institutional continuity over the ideology of an immutability, meaning that the popular "code is law" was still conditional depending on who was getting hacked.

The failure of Web3 was not technological—it was psychological.

During the post-COVID migration into digital life, NFTs did not arrive merely as files on a blockchain. They were enframed as identity, belonging, and access. What was sold was not art, but membership. Not technology, but proximity to power.

Projects like Bored Ape Yacht Club did not succeed because of their aesthetic merit or technical novelty. They succeeded because they were delivered inside a carefully constructed frame: exclusivity, celebrity validation, and social proof. Ownership was presented as a passport into culture, relevance, and future wealth. The frame did the work before any individual context could be questioned.

This is where the danger of enframement becomes visible.

In an environment defined by isolation, excess liquidity, and algorithmic amplification, trust was assumed rather than earned. Parasocial relationships collapsed the distance between celebrities and audiences, while transparent wallets replaced credentials as symbols of legitimacy. The result was a market where confidence was mistaken for competence, and visibility for truth.

Two individuals could occupy the same digital space, view the same assets, and participate in the same conversations—yet live inside entirely different realities. One understood the technology as experimental infrastructure. The other experienced it as a shortcut to identity and belonging.

The tragedy was not that people believed in Web3. It was that the loudest frames were the least honest. Identity was sold without accountability. Community was promised without governance. Wealth was implied without disclosure of risk.

In this way, NFTs became a case study in illusionary context: a technology still under development, delivered inside a frame of certainty, success, and inevitability.

As technology becomes more embedded in daily life—mediating trust, value, identity, and governance—the risk is not that machines will overpower us. The risk is that humans will stop interrogating the frames they are placed inside. When context is pre-selected and perception is guided, discernment quietly atrophies.

This is not a future problem. It is a present condition.

Sanitizing context is not censorship. It is a form of cognitive governance—an ethical responsibility to ensure that systems do not exploit human pattern completion, social hunger, or the desire for certainty. Without this, enframement becomes infrastructure, and illusionary context becomes policy.

At Mental Wealth Academy, our work begins here.

We study parasocial dynamics, cyber-culture, quantitative user experience research, human-computer interaction, governance systems, and on-chain frameworks not to reject technology—but to design it with epistemic humility. Our goal is not to eliminate frames, but to make them legible, negotiable, and accountable.

A decentralized future cannot be built on opaque perception. It must be grounded in education, empathy, and tools that respect human cognition rather than exploit it.

The work ahead is not to escape the frame—but to learn how to see it.

Works Cited

https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil394/The%20Question%20Concerning%20Technology.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

https://jmphil.org/article/id/2505/#:~:text=Other%20recent%20work%20has%20pointed,in%20rejecting%20the%20plantation%20system.

How the Brain Completes Sentences - Neuroscience News

Researchers uncover how when we hear only a fraction of what is said, but are familiar with the context, we automatically are able to fill in the missing information.

https://neurosciencenews.com