Omnidirectional Obsolescence

Provocation:
What does it mean to live in a world where everything is on the verge of becoming obsolete—from our tools to our truths?

Interpretation:
Omnidirectional obsolescence suggests a systemic, all-encompassing breakdown of relevance. Not just technological gadgets aging out, but entire frameworks of meaning, institutions, identities, ideologies—collapsing in every direction at once. There’s no safe harbor of permanence. No stable axis around which change orbits. Instead, decay radiates centrifugally and centripetally, undermining the very scaffolding of continuity.

Implications:
If obsolescence is no longer linear but ambient, then adaptation must become ontological—not just upgrading devices or ideas, but rewriting the fundamental terms of being. Continuity becomes an illusion. Legacy becomes liability. We are no longer navigating progress but surfing entropy.

Challenge:
Is the goal to resist this obsolescence—or to embrace it as the birthplace of post-relevance emergence? What happens when relevance itself becomes obsolete?

They met like unstable isotopes—
resonant, volatile, unrepeatable.

Omnidirectional obsolescence arrived with the scent of scorched timelines, its presence less like a person and more like a pattern—recursively collapsing structures just by observing them.

Relevance—once sharp, self-assured—looked up and smiled, unaware it had already gone translucent.

"You're early," said Relevance, scanning for a center that no longer held.
"No," said Obsolescence, "you're late in all directions."

And that was the beginning of their union:
Not a collision, but a diffusion.
Not conflict, but recursion.
They didn’t argue. They eroded.

Now they move together like a virus and its host—
inseparable,
interdependent,
mutually terminal.