Wow. I just want to find some GIF of a guy clapping forever and post that.

The post however deserves better. Damn, this is good. Evocative yet concise, poetic yet detailed. Your patch metaphor was so vivid I could literally see them multiplying and subdividing before my mind's eye like a dementedly optimistic version of Conway's Game of Life playing out in a macroscale petri dish. Beautiful work.

Also? New word alert! "Praxeology." This is a good day.

Sadly, on a meta level, this post is a perfect example of URQC in and of itself. If a whale had written it (or something of far lower quality), it would be at $661 by now rather than the $6.61 on my screen as I type this. Have my humble upvote and Follow anyway.

So good.