A man dies. His tools stay behind. The hammer in your hand? That was his. The pain in your shoulder? That was hers. We keep moving forward, but everything we touch was shaped by someone no longer here. And everything we buy today? Funds the ghosts.
We often think of demand as something forward-facing. What people want now shapes what gets produced next. But demand isn’t just a mechanism for creating the future—it’s also a channel that revives the past.
Every product consumed, every tool used, every piece of data relied on - each carries a chain of decisions, lives, efforts, and unresolved stories. The wrench on your shelf? Forged in a factory powered by exploitative labor in ‘82, provided some pay to a household. That algorithm you rely on? Coded by a man who worked on a 20-hour death-march without sunlight, growing a career. We call it innovation. But it’s just inheritance—bloodied and burned. When we engage with these, we’re not just moving forward—we’re sending value backward. And what we choose to value becomes more real.
If it creates value today, seemingly without much expenditure - more of the same would be in-demand.
The Lingering Echoes of Lives Once Lived
When a life ends, something of it remains. Walking close to a graveyard at night - that sensation. Find yourself in the living-space of one that recently died - their presence is still felt. The child that wakes at night, looking for its parents in a moment of confusion - but they are no longer there. This isn't just grief. It's energetic. It's a demand. And demand doesn’t die with the body—it lingers.
Not just in memories or records, but in the structures, systems, and unresolved dynamics it touched. Much like how data can persist long after deletion, the shape of a life continues—as an imprint, a resonance, a stored presence.
- The intense demand for biographies, ancestry research, final messages, and deathbed reconciliations reflects this.
- There is often a sense that “something needs to be resolved” even after a person is gone.
- The attachment to resolving a loved one’s affairs isn’t just logistical—it’s energetic. It reveals a demand for integrity that doesn’t stop at death.
This continuity suggests that our lives may leave behind storage traces in more than just memory. It may be part of why ancestor reverence exists across cultures. And why valuation choices today shape not only future outcomes—but the meaning of what came before.
imprints on today; the interplay between relations, connection with other time-spaces, value- and cost ties etc..
Blame, Karma & Systemic Flow
What continues searches for a path: The scribbles on tombstones reminds, recalls awareness of lives that faded. The house of a deceased needs a new occupant. The needs for safety no longer fulfilled, searches out a pathway - a substitute, a replacement, an upgrade.
Instead of assigning blame to individuals or eras, we can begin to see dynamics.
People often acted from the constraints of their time, shaped by dependencies, survival, and motivations that left traces in others. When unresolved, those traces show up as recurring social patterns, pain-points, or systemic costs.
Letting go of individual blame and focusing on how the flow moved through them can allow:
- More accurate resolution
- Reduced internal conflict
- Healing of cost-cycles that continue long after their origin
Just like medical care after injury, there are often post-life costs—energetic, relational, cultural—that must still be carried or cleared.
Like goods can fund exploitation, using tools or knowledge with roots in causing immense harm, can add power to unresolved suffering - blocking the resolution of millenia-old cracks that manifest today as vast and costly divides
How Demand-Channeling Echoes the Past
The choices made today, shapes as a pathway. Candles are found at graveyards, while a home once occupied is put on the market. Lives choose when, where and with whom they rest. Are you healing old wounds... or giving them a megaphone?
Every demand-channeling mechanism in our world—be it ads, cultural trends, or institutional investment—is built upon and shaped by the infrastructure of yesterday.
- Institutions value what they were built to value.
- Data pipelines retain and amplify old patterns.
- Systems respond to market signals, even if those signals echo harm or distortion.
If the demand flows today empower tools, products, or narratives rooted in exploitation or unresolved fracture, then those past wrongs gain new life.
What we consume now empowers what caused it to exist.
By using code, data, stories, or symbols without awareness of their roots, we may unwittingly extend the unresolved past into present systems.
Inter-Time Relations
Resolving the past happens in today. A presence is felt at the tombstones; like memories return. A home finds new occupants - the energy changes. Lives find partners, hang around in co-living spaces or connect with an inner source of self-care. If the systems we use today amplify pain from centuries ago… then who’s actually pulling the strings? The potential outcome, does it shape the past? To answer that, first let's look at the flow of demand.
The impact on the current reality, by the past, can be vast. The demand for accessing resources - readily there, but blocked, occupied and thus deemed "latent" - is vast. It seeks fulfilment, it craves solutions. As though were needs, desires, wants and cravings each like water-droplets - in themselves insignificant, but gathering in the millions, the billions, it turns into a vast powerful flow that reshapes the terrain in finding fulfillment.
Fulfillment consumed.
Say a random life eats a meal; settled, nourished and able to contribute. The work they then produce, like a piece of code, turns into value - consumed in developing AI, space-technology and the likes. These structures eventually carry the seeds of the trees, plants and the likes to other planetary environment - shaping a coherent cross-planetary natural space, like was it a forest finding a growth-path across a seemingly uncrossable river.
Lets assume such objective value-creation processes exist, and are part of even greater systemic layer. That we can impact in ways that contribute, or subtract at a more so objective level - from the purposes of life.
Imagine a loop—when life is lived in certain ways, it checks boxes that are deemed ‘desirable. The alignment (of interests) yields kinds of personal surplus - health, oneness, resource-access etc.. Think of it like posture; walk upright, and you naturally show up with greater power. Align with objective value-creation processes, and it makes for freedom when travelling - there's less inherent conflict with lives outside that enclosed bubble. We'll get to that, but first something even more vital requires attention.
It is very predictable that as big-data capacities grow, and AI-systems are trained to find ways to cut unnecessary expenses, that the ground-zeroes of the past will be targeted. The continuously escalating costs, the occupy resources otherwise available today - just look at politicians talking about budgetting, non-profits demanding donations and lives wanting cheaper products and low-cost ease of work-life and studies, to be able to pay the taxes yet still lead a decent life.
That's an intense demand, so many water-droplets finding pathway through reducing drains of resources! The capacity to reduce continuous losses, achieved by working with what flows from the past, is literally a consumable; accessing surplus, the same as making money - at least when capital resources already are flowing. Providing surplus, to make money more; accumulation.
How? You may wonder. It is incredibly simple; when clearing something up, social relations ceases to be in friction, lives feel less wronged, fractures begin to heal and collaboration is eased - the capacity for division of labor increases, leading to higher profit-margins. While this could be reminiscent of warnings of "judgment cycles" in religious contexts, it is basically a cheap way to access resources. This is not an invented approach by the way, just a predictable flow of demand - satisfying an ever-increasing hunger for fulfillment. It is a low cost way to gain fulfillment, to get what money buys at a reduced expense.
However something even more interesting is observing how the potential resource-access, that can be gained simply by navigating the imprints of lives, creates a demand. Demand that may predictably find fulfillment, with access to data on the lives that once were. A demand to retain information, awareness, memories - for a kind of data-storage to continue. While this in part is given channel by truth-centered history, the intensity of the need, for navigating what once was and how it impacts what is today ... it could indicate a fulfillment-pathway by the structuring of a kind of intelligence, a spirit of sorts - a metaphysical demand-channeling entity.
Taking this one step further the way a life lives, what it does today that shape the future, may determine parts of the immediate reality/experience.
Complicated?
Say a life needs to pay rent/accommodations, bills at the end of the month, transport, clothes - be it with time, effort or money. Subsequently they need dedicate efforts towards ensuring money is available, time can be spent or reducing the need. The present time, is thus determined by the predictable, expected and highly likely demand-for-expenditure (lest...). What about when you go shopping, to eat later? At a broader scale, companies prepare for opportunities in the year-cycle, while countries set goals for the next decades.
The world itself shapes, to accommodate predictable demand.
That future demand is being created by today’s choices. You breathe air, thus need exhale. You purchase an item, then need maintain it, make space for it, sell it, discard it etc.. You live in a home, and need accommodations to continue - a context that makes it possible to continue the efforts, to secure accommodations, food, hygiene, etc..
The very flows of fate, the trajectories of what will be - are determined by demand-of-the-future that is being created today. That demand, in turns shapes fulfillment-patterns; events, unfoldings, value-creation processes etc. today; the past is shaped by the future - and how YOU live TODAY, is a buy-in.
It is not just the future you shape; it is what you become part of having given rise to in the past. This can involve fulfillment-approaches, that involved disregard of beings - caused harm, that was part of shaping ground-zeroes of continuously escalating costs. It generates the exhaust-pollution of rationalization on it being worthwhile to harm to create value. You spent effort on a project, desiring it to be considered valuable to be paid. A company produces a product, desiring it is considered valuable on the market. A nation pours resources into keeping the peace—avoiding public unrest—keeping the tax train running smooth. That which once was, calls for deeds, passive ways and the likes to be held in high regard - to be given value. Value-creation is desired to be considered valuable - leading to rewards, buy-in into the harm, complicity and avoidance of being considered negatively. Payments sustain, products-purchases leads to payments, taxed payments funds projects - giving value to past efforts.
What you demand today rewrites who won yesterday - and the "costs" to the value created, may be at expenses of scarce resources; draining the valuation of efforts. We think we’re escaping the past. But we’re feeding it. The question is—when the past comes to collect… whose name will be on the bill? What determines the process of unlocking the resources? Even if valuation is secured, what are the "exhaust-fumes" to the process - and how does this impact the valuation of efforts that went before?
What You Use, You Reinforce
You shape the past. The reminiscing by the tombstone, brings awareness that allows for healing - it is in-demand. Making use of teachings of the now-dead, is buying real-estate in the past. The imprints of lives once part of anothers, may demand for the needs to be fulfilled carefully - buying real-estate in the present. There's an interplay going on, and you can contribute to shaping that for the better - simply by considering what you make use of and give value. Cursed tools, the use of which gives rise to rationalizing its procurement - shaping demand for more of the same - can be de-powered by reduced, limited or careful use.
What you make use of, you make more real - and it shapes your reality in ways other than intended. What you refuse to empower with attention, money and energy—becomes weaker.
That which you do empower, can lead to harm that increases cravings for low-cost production, leading to worsening production-lines consumed in sustaining low-cost productivity. Harm, that down-the-line is part of creating continuously escalating losses; at times very very nasty things, that cause more nasty things. Losses that become part of the value-creation equation that rely on that empowerment.
Sounds like bad news? It can also be good news: Inversely, how you relate to long-past eras, carry the potential to turn into inner capacity, shaping relations and unlocking surplus that can be re-invested; providing ease and healing.
More-over, the awareness gives you the power to let your personal refuge be shaped THROUGH you, while simultaneously reducing conflict with the love for a variety of lives; current and past. Check out this more so market-friendly blog I run for inspiration on how to put on the oxygen-mask.
If you feel safe, perhaps you know of someone that would benefit by the safety and co-processing co-working can bring, someone those disconnect is driving them to self-harm and might benefit by building up that oneness. There's usually a lack of time to be found in immediate surrounds and this post assists to regain that. A simple way to reduce consumption-strain, is by improving the foundation - how you get from A to B - and back.
Choosing what not to use in this era of abundance, is perhaps of greater impact than choosing what you make use of. You’re not just shaping the future with every tap of the card. You’re rewriting the past. Who got rewarded, what gets remembered, and what pain stays alive. The future ain’t clean. It’s made from yesterday’s bones. The only question is: Are you healing the wound… or feeding the ghost?