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Invisible Fist

Coinagefirst used August 2025

Adam Smith had his invisible hand. I gave the planet an invisible fist, the hidden force at work in the actions of many actors, "from the man on the street to the whale in the ocean".

How the word moved

It's the opening image of the Pauper #9, in August 2025. That's the same essay where I predicted economics will give way to Bhumics, so modesty was clearly off the table that week.

In my words

"I have been tasked with another responsibility: to reveal the traces of another invisible hand, or rather, an invisible fist: the invisible fist of ..."

from Bhumics: The Pauper #9, 6 Aug 2025

Related

  • Related Pauper - paupers are the actors in whom the fist shows itself.
  • Related Planet - the fist belongs to the planet.
  • Related Bhumics - "Economics will give way to Bhumics" is in the same essay.

Still open

I introduced it once and never developed it.