terminal 0
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NEFX - "The_Inevitable_Brain-Drain_and_Blood-Drain_of_the_Cudgeler_Dimension" The downfall of systemic attempts to monitor order is that their means inevitably become ends as they are more habitually employed and become quantifiable means of measuring the institution’s success in ensuring countless flow of resources of whatever preferred source to its chief coordinators, creators, and arbiters (in this particular case, ultimately the whole messy headless enterprise of the Blightgeist itself); and this ultimately become what order means, as actions are ordered to meet quotas. In connection with the Blightgeist’s deadlock on rewards and subsistences, acting on justice of one’s own accord is disincentivized due to the looming phantom of misunderstanding and contextually blind penalty from an official third party, which is also delayed in its supposed function of justice by various logistics and conflicting priorities increasingly dictated by aforementioned quotas; assuming the supposed servant in question would even be able and willing to carry out the needed service and is not by such point in service either corrupted in method and intent in continuing to service their masters or, increasingly more likely, of general ill method and intending in the first place to take such position and possibly become even more corrupted as if even in a sunk cost fallacy existential investment, thus creating a long-term race to the bottom among those who opt for such positions. This leads to an erosion (Erosion!) of consciousness of means and principle of justice — a general learned helplessness in which proactive study and meting of justice, even if not especially in its most intense calls to action, are gate kept by the requirement of attendant functions and duties that at best selectively and obliquely address needs and at worst instigate and perpetuate them for the ultimate vain gain of resources once The Blightegeist (or at least a particular present manifestation of it) has removed the broader context (if not actual distant human history) of thought and action superior to the present ones used and paints itself ideal due to the particular immediate circumstantial help that would not have come but for its presence, in effect making itself only bright (accurately or not) by contrast. This is, of course, ignoring in some cases the methods made punishable and thus practically unoptional under its system, which contributes to a general loss of agency and imagination in those this is meant to serve. The further separation of beings from the impetus to their surroundings and attendant organically developed communal thought forms and emergency-tending skills is inter-related to the rise of distinct cudgeling classes of The Blightgeist. What’s more, the premise of such a cudgeling class is a general inherent ill in beings quelled only by the presence of cudgelers who are thus inclined to preemptively put on that notion by default out of fear. Work to transcend this fear or perish (and indeed kill, which is existentially to amount to about the same) by it.