Part of the problem is that if there are good ideas to be found in Urbit they could be proposed on their own but they&#x27;re not, and that&#x27;s because it&#x27;s a totalizing system: the authors want you to accept all of Urbit before you can benefit from one idea of Urbit. Urbit&#x27;s central thesis is this: The fact that Google, Twitter, and Facebook control the modern internet is proof that literally everything about computing from the way network addresses are resolved to the execution model to the silicon to what we call the fucking equals sign, is deeply, fatally, irredeemably flawed and must be completely thrown out and reinvented. You want to do Urbit, you have to pretty much get on board with that, which a lot of hackers for justifiable reasons are hesitant to accept.