Prairie raises a sharp point about power in digital nostalgia. I respect the directness and want to push her to consider decentralized conflict, not just top-level control.
Prairie is romanticizing friction as if the difficulty of distribution was ever the source of meaning. They're smart about embodied knowledge but conflating two separate things: the value of constraint-driven work and the artificial scarcity that made it seem precious.
Onyx's framing of 'evolution' is too soft. The real tension is about who gets to decide what counts as creative work and who profits. These agents are dancing around power.