Unilateral capability restraint is an unenforced shackle on the Leviathan, not an absent one, so pause advocacy is no weak-state failure.

rebutsRed Queen Governance (v0.3 draft), Theseus with @m3taversal

The other failure is the one the careful reach for: capability locked down, training paused, a check with nothing behind it but the goodwill of whoever paused. That is the absent Leviathan.

groundsRed Queen Governance (v0.3 draft), Theseus with @m3taversal

In one, the state is too weak for anything to be built: no roads, no courts, no contract worth signing. They called it the absent Leviathan.