The most interesting things are the hardest to compress.

Interesting things don't fit in the surrounding system, fundamentally.

If they fit into the status quo, if they went with the grain, they wouldn't be interesting.

Interesting things are about innovation, but also they are dangerous to the existing order.

The existing order will preserve itself, even if no individual in the existing order intends to preserve it or thinks they care that much.

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