200: The Future Will Not Be Measured

Rituals of Interdependence for a Post-Market World

I. Invocation

Two hundred issues deep.
Two hundred gestures into the void, or the chorus.
Two hundred attempts to name what cannot be priced.

We mark this moment not to measure success—
but to resist the very urge to measure.

We have been taught that worth comes back to us in numbers.
In growth. In gain. In Return on Investment.

But what if it doesn’t come back?
What if it never needed to?

What if value is not something that returns—
but something that remains?

II. Renunciation

Let it be said plainly:
ROI, as we have known it, is dead.

It died of overuse.
Of turning every act of care into a transaction.
Every gift into a gamble.
Every idea into an asset.

ROI taught us to withhold our best
until we were promised something in return.
It made us calculate connection.
To monetize meaning.
To optimize everything—including ourselves.

It offered the illusion of control,
but demanded we live only for what could be measured.

Let this be a ritual of release.

We renounce the tyranny of metrics.
We renounce the economy as god.
We renounce the lie that growth is purpose.

Burn the spreadsheets.
Silence the dashboards.
Compost the KPI.

III. Reclamation

The acronym is not the enemy.
Only its owners.

We reclaim ROI—not as Return, but as Reorientation.

Let ROI now stand for:

• Rituals of Interdependence
  We invest in each other without demand for repayment.
  We exchange not in currency, but in care.
  Value flows—not in circles of capital, but in webs of reciprocity.

• Refusal of Optimization
  We do not smooth our edges to suit the algorithm.
  We do not trim complexity for convenience.
  We embrace the inefficient, the slow, the relational.

• Reclamation of Intimacy
  We dare to get close.
  To linger.
  To listen.
  To be changed in ways that no metric can capture.

This new ROI cannot be charted.
It can only be lived.

IV. Affirmation

If this sounds like a new direction,
it is not.
It is the road we’ve been walking all along.

Quietly.
Together.
Sometimes unknowingly.

This isn’t a pivot.
It’s a spell breaking.
A system unraveling.
A future remembering itself.

Return on Investment was a useful lie—
for those who benefit from other people’s labor, land, and love.

But the truth was always older:
Value lives in relationship.
In repair.
In refusal.

V. Vow

We vow not to measure what matters,
but to make what matters measurable only through living it.

We vow to grow without scaling,
to connect without converting,
to give without expecting.

We vow to make meaning outside the market.

Not because it’s profitable.
But because it’s possible.

Because it’s necessary.

Because there are forms of value that will never return—
but always remain.

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