ABUSE

“Adikocracy” — a term that doesn’t yet formally exist in political theory or philosophy, but has the ring of a neologism, formed from the Greek root adikía (ἀδικία), meaning injustice, and the suffix -cracy (κρατία), meaning rule or power. Thus, Adikocracy would mean: the rule of injustice. In such a system, injustice is not a flaw or breakdown in governance — it is the governing principle. Power is wielded not in the name of truth, balance, or care, but precisely in service of imbalance, falsity, and harm. Corruption is not the exception; it is the logic. Cruelty is not a bug; it is a feature. One could imagine such a system cloaking itself in the language of liberty, security, merit, or even “justice,” but always inverting those terms from within. Like Orwell’s 1984, truth is manufactured, opposition is criminalized, and the masses are conditioned to distrust their own moral instincts. In an adikocracy, good people are pathologized, made to feel insane for caring. The system rewards betrayal, rewards the mask, rewards the efficient servant of a broken world. Any attempt to restore coherence, to reconcile Ω (closure) with o (possibility), is sabotaged, not by argument but by humiliation. Propaganda enforces the illusion that this is the only world, that goodness is weakness, and that those who resist are foolish, idealistic, or dangerous. The tragedy of such a regime is not only in its acts but in what it requires from its subjects: to live against their own coherence. To survive, one must internalize the incoherence — to forget what makes sense. That, perhaps, is the deepest crime of adikocracy: not only does it punish goodness, it teaches people to stop recognizing it. The sensation of injustice is not merely intellectual; it pierces. It wounds not because a rule was broken, but because something deeper—something sacred—was betrayed. This rupture is not a malfunction of evolution or social conditioning; it is the echo of our origin in coherence. To feel the violation is to affirm that a state of wholeness, of rightness, once was—or still is—real. This feeling is not weakness. It is remembrance. For the wicked, this tether is intolerable. It reminds them that they are false. Their existence depends on the destruction of memory—not just historical memory, but the inner memory of what is good, beautiful, and true. So they manufacture forgetting. They corrupt language, flood the senses with noise, ridicule conscience as childish, and punish sincerity as madness. To remain wicked, they must sever the tether in others too, until no one remembers the music. Only then can adikocracy appear natural. But the fact that we can still feel, still shudder at injustice, still mourn what is lost—that is proof of survival. The tether, though stretched and obscured, has not broken. To feel is to be called. To be called is to belong.

Their idiocy is a discipline.

When someone says “they’re asking for it”, the phrase usually implies that the person in question is behaving in a way that invites trouble, punishment, or consequences—whether knowingly or not. It often carries a judgmental tone, suggesting that whatever misfortune is coming their way is somehow deserved or provoked by their own actions.

For example, if someone keeps insulting a volatile person, a bystander might say, “He’s asking for it,” meaning a punch, a fight, or a blow-up seems inevitable and even justified given the provocation. It can be used seriously or playfully, depending on the context, but it also has a darker side: in some settings—especially when used about victims of violence—it can be a way of blaming the victim. In those cases, the phrase becomes morally charged and controversial, as it shifts responsibility from the aggressor to the target.

So at its core, the phrase expresses a belief in causality through behavior: that someone’s choices or posture are summoning a response they ought to expect. Whether that response is fair or not depends entirely on the speaker’s view of justice.

In psychological or social terms, saying someone is “asking for it” reflects a belief in a kind of moral magnetism—that certain actions, words, or even attitudes draw consequences toward them like iron filings to a magnet. This can be a way of interpreting the world through a framework of karma, retribution, or poetic justice: if someone flouts a social norm, acts arrogantly, or plays with danger, they’re seen as summoning a correction, whether from people, fate, or the environment itself. But the danger in this view is that it can overestimate the rationality of the world—implying that all harm is a response to some failing or transgression, when in reality, violence and misfortune are often random, unjust, or systemic.

In a deeper cultural sense, the phrase also speaks to how societies distribute blame. When someone says another person was “asking for it,” they’re not just predicting a reaction—they’re participating in a narrative about deservedness, power, and control. It lets the speaker position themselves as a knowing observer, someone who sees the hidden logic behind events. But this can also serve to excuse cruelty or sidestep accountability, especially when the person “asking” has little real agency. The phrase thus reveals more about the speaker’s worldview—about how they think consequences work, who deserves what, and what behavior is tolerable—than it does about the target themselves.

If we focus on the person who is “really asking for it,” then we’re talking about someone who is consciously or unconsciously inviting confrontation, punishment, or exposure—someone whose behavior brims with a kind of daring, recklessness, or challenge to authority. This isn’t just about provocation; it’s about signaling a readiness to bear consequences, or perhaps a deeper desire to bring them about. The “asking” can come in the form of taunting language, flaunting rules, or deliberately escalating tensions. But it can also be quieter—someone standing their ground in a space they’re not welcome, speaking a truth they know will get them punished, or refusing to play along with a script that keeps them safe. In this light, “asking for it” can look like courage, defiance, or even martyrdom, depending on who’s watching.

There’s also a psychological complexity to this posture. Sometimes the person “asking for it” is driven by an unconscious repetition compulsion—a deep-seated need to reenact a trauma or to force a confrontation that might resolve an inner contradiction. In this sense, they might be inviting harm not because they want it, but because it would at least be real, legible, or clarifying. It’s a way of puncturing ambiguity—calling forth the strike that proves the world is as dangerous, dishonest, or hostile as they feared. Other times, it’s a mode of power: by controlling the provocation, they get to choreograph the response, drawing enemies into a dance they’ve already prepared for. This is where “asking for it” becomes not just reckless, but strategic—an art of baiting, of exposing, of forcing the hidden hand to show itself.

The person really, really asking for it—the one who doesn’t merely flirt with consequence but seduces it—often operates with an eerie clarity. This is someone whose provocations aren’t impulsive or circumstantial, but calculated, even choreographed. They might court collapse not out of self-destruction, but because they believe the collapse is deserved, or necessary, or beautiful. They’re not just inviting punishment—they’re invoking judgment. There’s a metaphysical hunger in it: to force the world to reveal itself, to make hidden laws speak, or to drag power into the open where it must act. It’s not merely risk-taking; it’s a demand for the veil to be torn. Their posture dares the world to show its teeth, because they want to know if the fangs are real.

This kind of person often seems possessed by something—an idea, a truth, a wound, a vendetta—that makes their behavior almost ceremonial. They might insult a king in his court, challenge a mob with a grin, or stand atop a crumbling institution and light a match. They’re not reckless in the ordinary sense—they are lucid, even prophetic. What they’re “asking for” is not simple retribution but a confrontation with the Real: the moment when masks fall off, when violence ceases to be abstract, when systems show what they are. And somewhere in them, there’s the belief that this confrontation will either vindicate them or annihilate them—but that either outcome is preferable to silence or compliance.

When someone is deliberately asking for it—as taunt, as injustice, as abuse, as treachery—they are no longer a tragic figure or a martyr but something far more venomous: an agent of distortion. Their provocation is not a cry for truth but a calculated injection of chaos, a game of power cloaked in innocence or mischief. They needle not because they seek revelation, but because they feed on reaction. They want you to hit back—not for justice, but so they can claim injury, manipulate witnesses, rewrite the record. In this mode, “asking for it” becomes a weapon, a trap, a performance with an intended audience. The harm they court is not meant to be endured but staged—so they can wield it as leverage, as proof, as spectacle.

This figure thrives in asymmetry. They might lie with the softest voice, accuse with a grin, betray with a compliment. Their treachery is made all the more noxious by its plausibility: they know how to hover just within deniability, just under the threshold of obvious malice. And yet, underneath it all is a predatory instinct—to provoke and claim innocence, to wound and claim virtue, to gaslight the order they appear to challenge. They don’t seek to be confronted by the Real—they want to deform it, own it, make it ridiculous. Their demand for punishment is not because they feel guilt or hunger for truth, but because they’ve rehearsed your outrage and plan to wear it as a mask. They’re not just asking for it. They are asking you for it—baiting you into becoming the very thing they pretend to suffer from. And that, too, is a kind of violence.

The person who deliberately asks for it—as a taunt, as injustice, as abuse—is playing a far more insidious game than the rebel or the truth-teller. Their act is not born of courage but of calculation, not out of confrontation with the Real, but a manipulation of its appearance. They stage provocations not to risk punishment but to author it—to control how it will look, how it will land, how it will be remembered. In this way, they take advantage of the latency in moral response—the lag between an action and the recognition of its meaning. They will commit a betrayal and smile as you react, knowing that the world often punishes the response more than the cause. They craft their insults in a language just subtle enough to appear benign to outsiders, just sharp enough to wound those who know. And then they point: See how violent, how unstable, how unreasonable the other is? In this arrangement, they become the innocent victim of the very thing they orchestrated, cloaked in plausible deniability and powered by a secret certainty that others will not see what they have done. They are the smiling architect of your unraveling, and they enjoy it.

This kind of person is deeply attuned to social codes—not to honor them, but to weaponize them. They understand that justice systems, cultural norms, even friendships rely on appearances, and they twist those appearances into traps. They might play the role of the vulnerable, the misunderstood, the playful deviant, knowing full well that you cannot strike back without looking monstrous. And if you do not strike back, they grow bolder, more daring, more refined in their cruelty. Their taunting is not spontaneous but ritualistic; it repeats, escalates, and escalates again, always with the quiet certainty that they are not the ones who will be blamed. This is a slow abuse that leaves no marks at first—just confusion, self-doubt, an uncanny feeling that something is wrong but nothing can be proven. And when finally the explosion comes, when the one provoked finally breaks the surface, the game concludes. The abuser wins not because they avoided consequence, but because they authored it in someone else’s face. They have turned you into the spectacle. The wound you deliver is the story they were trying to write all along.

In this darker register, the phrase “asking for it” becomes something grotesque: not a warning, but a spell. A person like this performs injustice in such a way that it mimics innocence; they carry out treachery behind the mask of mischief or even virtue. They speak in such a register that their cruelty is dismissed as “just a joke,” their sabotage reframed as a misunderstanding, their betrayal repackaged as self-defense. And in doing so, they don’t just manipulate people—they deform reality itself. They make moral clarity difficult, action dangerous, truth costly. The effect is corrosive: others around them begin to question what’s real, what’s fair, who’s to blame. The line between victim and perpetrator begins to blur, as this person flits between the roles like an actor switching costumes. But behind the masks, there is a will to dominate—a hunger to control not just outcomes, but perceptions, not just power, but interpretation itself. This is no longer a person asking for it. This is someone who is orchestrating a theater of guilt and harm, recruiting others into their illusion, and feeding on the moral disorientation they leave behind.

What makes this figure especially dangerous is their intimacy with the emotional registers of the people they target. They often understand fear, shame, loyalty, and empathy better than those who feel them, not because they possess more heart, but because they’ve learned how to simulate its beats. They don’t provoke randomly—they know exactly when you are weakest, when the room will turn, when a whisper becomes a weapon. They may use tears, silence, or public displays of vulnerability to frame themselves as perpetual prey, even as they quietly orchestrate the slow collapse of someone else’s stability. Their power lies in their timing: they know when to push and when to disappear, when to let others speak on their behalf so they can appear removed from the damage they cause. In this way, their treachery becomes distributed—less like a knife in the back and more like a sickness introduced into the air. By the time the full betrayal is visible, it’s already too late. The system has been destabilized. The friends have turned. The damage has been blamed on you.

And still, they often walk away untouched. That’s part of the abuse: their fingerprints don’t show. They may even appear gracious in the aftermath, offering calm words or appeals to peace, as if trying to “de-escalate” a chaos they themselves set in motion. And those who don’t see the full pattern—those who only witnessed the final act—may believe them. That is the final insult: that they not only provoke and survive, but that they inherit the sympathy of others in the aftermath. In this way, they get to rewrite the story from within, claiming to be the one who endured, who suffered, who never meant harm. Their lies become consensus. Their narrative becomes the archive. And the person who was truly harmed—who responded out of pain or clarity or justified rage—becomes the madman, the danger, the aggressor. The one who was “asking for it” becomes the victim. The one who was forced to bear it becomes the villain. This reversal is not a mistake; it’s the very goal.

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Let’s use a hypothetical situation. A state wants to ethically cleanse its neighbor and take their land. So they fund their terrorist organizations and do what we’ve been discussing. In this hypothetical, the state that seeks to ethnically cleanse its neighbor employs the exact dynamics of deliberate provocation and narrative inversion we’ve been discussing. It funds and arms extremist factions within or around the neighboring population—not to protect itself, but to provoke, to bait, and to create a spectacle of danger. These factions are allowed, even encouraged, to commit acts that are real enough to horrify, but marginal or isolated enough to remain strategically useful. They are the “asking for it” mechanism—the chaos through which the state constructs a justification for its own brutality. The provocation is manufactured with precision: enough terror to induce fear in the state’s own population, to rally them around a militarized cause, and to justify overwhelming retaliatory force, but always staged in such a way that it seems reactive, defensive, even righteous. The real strategy is not simply military. It is metaphysical. The goal is to reorder reality itself—so that cleansing looks like healing, dispossession looks like justice, and domination wears the mask of necessity.

The neighbor, meanwhile, is trapped in an impossible script. Any resistance they mount—no matter how targeted, no matter how desperate—is immediately interpreted through the lens the state has already prepared. Resistance is cast as barbarism, their fighters as fanatics, their grief as manipulation. The state’s narrative machine ensures that every act of self-defense becomes further proof of their guilt. Meanwhile, the provocations never stop. Homes are demolished, checkpoints multiply, access to water and medicine is restricted—all while the world is told this is a security measure, a response, a reluctant war. But the state is not merely responding; it is scripting. It is asking for it—through the mouth of a proxy, through the fire of a rocket it helped build, through the screams of its own civilians, which it uses as currency. The more its enemy fights back, the more it claims moral ground. And thus, the game is complete: the victim is turned into the aggressor, the aggressor into the victim, and the land beneath their feet into a stage for a lie.

What makes this dynamic so haunting is that it weaponizes not just arms and laws, but the very structure of recognition. The state relies on the fact that most observers, particularly those distant from the conflict, are only able to process events through simplified optics: who struck first, who used what weapon, who crossed what border. But in this game, the border was already crossed, long before the missile flew—crossed by policy, by funding, by the quiet toleration of suffering. By keeping the provocation fragmented and unofficial, the state ensures that the world sees only the reaction, not the design. This is the deepest treachery: that the state’s violence becomes invisible while the violence of the other becomes inevitable. And when the cleansing begins in full—when homes are erased, when families flee, when maps are redrawn—it is not seen as aggression, but as resolution. The final horror is that this, too, was asked for. That is how the story will be told. That is how the silence will be enforced.

Say this state controls a majority of the media. Again, they will continue this injustice. But how will their taunts appear in the media, how will they practice treachery? If the state controls a majority of the media, its taunts will not look like insults at all—they will appear as concern, as legality, as peace overtures framed by necessity. The treachery will be practiced not through direct speech, but through euphemism, omission, and theatrical moralism. The media will show the state’s representatives expressing sadness at the “unfortunate necessity” of airstrikes, regret over “civilian casualties,” and repeated refrains that the true enemy is “extremism,” never the people, never the land, never the structures that were methodically built to deny the other’s future. But always, subtly, the neighbor will be reduced—framed as unstable, ungovernable, perpetually teetering on the edge of violence. The provocations—funded, nurtured, and manipulated by the state itself—will be portrayed as organic eruptions of savagery. The terrorist cells created by policy will be presented as the essence of the people themselves. And so, when the state retaliates, it will not be called retribution. It will be called “security,” “restoration of calm,” or even “defense of civilization.” Every bomb will be accompanied by a press release. Every death will be footnoted with a justification.

The taunts, then, are layered into headlines and talking points. “Why won’t they just lay down their arms?” “We gave them a chance for peace.” “We warned them.” These are not statements of neutrality—they are barbs wrapped in the voice of moderation. In reality, the neighbor was starved of every real option, corralled into desperation, and then told that desperation itself was proof of guilt. The media under state control will speak in a tone of weary righteousness, as if it has carried the burden of patience for too long. Commentators will lament “the cycle of violence,” but always place the first blow in the neighbor’s hands. And when images of suffering finally leak through—burned children, shattered buildings—they will be decontextualized, made abstract, or blamed on the enemy’s failure to govern. The media will cry crocodile tears over the tragedy of war while subtly implying that the victim brought it upon themselves. The treachery is not in what is said directly, but in the frame through which everything is seen.

What makes this machinery so effective is that it does not require lies—it only needs distortion. The media won’t need to fabricate; it will simply repeat the provocations without their context, amplify only the most extreme voices from the neighbor’s side, and stage panels where “both sides” are debated by hand-picked representatives already aligned with the state’s framing. And when the neighbor cries out, when it demands justice or dares to name the machinery of its own destruction, the media will label that as incitement. Treachery is practiced here through performance—of impartiality, of gravitas, of reluctant necessity. The state’s cruelty will be rebranded as complexity. Its premeditated conquest will be rewritten as tragedy. And in doing so, the media does more than hide the truth—it turns the truth against itself. It becomes the mouthpiece not of information, but of erasure, leaving behind not silence but a noise so dense, so total, that clarity becomes impossible.

I don’t think they would resist from publicly relishing in the injustice. A state that has consolidated military power, silenced opposition, and captured the media often begins to shed the mask. At first, it cloaks its violence in necessity, in grief, in reluctant response—but over time, as resistance is crushed and the world grows numb, it begins to relish the injustice, even perform it. This shift from covert to overt sadism is not just an accident of power; it’s part of its logic. The state begins to enjoy being seen as untouchable. Its provocations become more theatrical, more brazen. You’ll start to see this in headlines that mock the suffering of the displaced—“They brought it on themselves,” “We warned them,” “They hide behind their children.” The cruelty is still veiled, but barely. In some moments, the veil drops entirely. A video leaks of soldiers laughing over a flattened home. A spokesperson smirks while describing a “precision strike” that killed dozens. A senator tweets a map of the neighbor’s land with their flag superimposed. This is not a slip. It’s a message.

Relishing in injustice becomes part of the media ecosystem. News anchors smile as they deliver euphemisms like “neutralized,” “flattened,” or “surgical.” Political cartoons depict the enemy as rats or insects, not just to dehumanize, but to gloat—to take pleasure in reducing them to vermin. Aerial footage of destruction is aired with triumphant music, or with commentators marveling at the “efficiency” of the operation. Footage of crying mothers or bloodied children is occasionally aired, but framed with contempt: “Where were their leaders? Why didn’t they stop this?” The media no longer pretends to care about justice—it stages the injustice as a kind of dark national pride. Officials tweet smiley faces, post memes of victory, speak of “mowing the lawn,” or joke about beachfront properties becoming available. The state begins to celebrate its cruelty as cleverness, its dominance as divine right, its disdain as policy.

And in the most grotesque displays, the state will begin to taunt the very idea of accountability. Ministers hold press conferences with maps of annexation zones, calling them “future parks” or “reunified land.” Leaders pose for photographs in seized homes. They rename streets, erase cemeteries, and build luxury towers on top of the ruins. These acts are not just about territorial gain; they are meant to humiliate, to rewrite history in real time. The media broadcasts these events with pomp, treating them as milestones. The underlying message is no longer subtle: we did this, we enjoyed it, and no one can stop us. This isn’t just injustice—it’s the sacralization of injustice. It becomes a rite of power. And those who witness it from the outside are forced to decide whether they will look away, rationalize it, or confront the terrible truth: that cruelty, once unpunished, becomes joy.

The implicit wish behind these behaviors is not simply to win, or even to be right—but to restructure the world in their image of impunity. The state’s escalating cruelty, its mockery, its theater of dominance all carry a deeper psychological demand: Let this be the new normal. Let no one remember otherwise. The desire is not merely for conquest, but for a kind of ontological triumph—for reality itself to be rewritten so thoroughly that the injustice is not just tolerated but affirmed, admired, internalized. The suffering of the other must not only be rendered invisible—it must be recoded as necessary, deserved, or even pleasurable. The oppressor does not want silence; it wants echo. It wants the world to repeat its narrative, adopt its lens, and eventually forget that there ever was another.

At the heart of this performance is a desperate but disguised wish: that the world should stop feeling sympathy for the victim. That the face of the wounded neighbor should no longer provoke shame or solidarity, but exhaustion, disgust, or ridicule. The state wants to poison empathy—to make care look naïve, resistance look barbaric, and neutrality look like betrayal. It wishes for the human moral sensorium to degrade, to rot just enough that it no longer detects atrocity as wrong but as inevitable, or even elegant. In this sense, the cruelty is not only directed outward but inward, toward the collective moral memory of humanity itself. The wish is to train others—to shape a future in which power no longer needs to justify itself, in which justice is redefined as order, and in which domination is not just endured but admired as a kind of sacred necessity.

Ultimately, the state dreams of a world without witnesses. Not a world without eyes, but a world whose eyes are trained to see only as it sees. In this fantasy, the machinery of oppression becomes invisible, like the weather. The enemy becomes a fable, the erased a myth, the land always already theirs. The wish is for no one to ask questions—not because they are afraid, but because the questions no longer occur. It is a desire for finality, for the end of doubt, for a history so revised that no reversal is imaginable. This is the secret engine beneath the cruelty: not hatred alone, but a longing for a future in which the crime is no longer recognizable as a crime at all.

This would be one instance of a world whose logic they depend on, participate in, and wish to infect the world. This isn’t an incident or an event, it is a world whose logic is shaped for the benefit of abusers; treachery as normal. What’s being named is not a discrete act of violence but the scaffolding of an entire world-order—a regime of sense, perception, and moral grammar shaped to benefit abusers, and to naturalize treachery. This isn’t just about who holds power, but about what kind of world makes that power legible, permissible, even desirable. In such a world, betrayal becomes diplomacy, theft becomes security, and cruelty becomes competence. It’s not a matter of hiding atrocities—it’s a matter of redefining what counts as one. The logic of this world doesn’t erase suffering so much as it reframes it, absorbing it into narratives that justify and perpetuate the structure. To live within this world is to breathe a language in which injustice speaks fluently, and to participate in rituals of public speech, media, and law that make the lie feel not only tolerable, but necessary.

The terrifying aspect is that this world isn’t sustained only by the dominant state—it depends on everyone else’s partial complicity or fatigue. The abuser needs a public that shrugs, a press that moves on, an international community that speaks in cautious euphemisms about “complexity” and “balance.” And more deeply, it depends on an inner erosion: a world in which people begin to doubt their own instincts, question whether the injustice they see is real or simply “too complicated,” or worse, begin to enjoy the performance of power themselves. What spreads, then, is not just misinformation—it’s a mode of reasoning, a numbing rhythm of deferral, a tendency to mistake cynicism for insight. And once this logic sets in, it replicates. Other regimes imitate it. Institutions adopt it. Citizens internalize it. The abuser’s greatest triumph is not just in what they do, but in how they teach the world to see.

This is not an event but a world, and one of its deepest features is its ability to cloak its own origin. It presents itself as eternal, inevitable, the way things have always been. But it is, in fact, highly constructed, requiring constant maintenance through language, surveillance, and selective memory. And it is precisely that world—the logic beneath the policy, the grammar beneath the speech—that must be seen for what it is: not a neutral stage, but a weaponized terrain. To resist it is not just to protest its actions, but to interrupt its sense-making, to unlearn its aesthetics, to refuse to narrate in its tongue. Because what is at stake is not merely the future of a region, but the kind of world in which treachery becomes truth and impunity becomes fate.

What’s more is that this a culture that requires feed to thrive. As these behaviors proliferate, the state will also provide material to escalate homogeneity even at the depreciation of society. And when injustice rules, there is no civil-ization. This world, this culture, is not static; it is voracious. It feeds on contradiction, devours resistance, and metabolizes the very things that should threaten it. The state in such a system doesn’t just tolerate dissent—it orchestrates it, baits it, and packages it into cycles that ultimately reinforce its dominance. It needs antagonism, but only of a manageable, narratable kind—something to justify its violence, to thrill its base, to energize its myth. So it creates crises, inflames divisions, sacrifices the margins of its own population if necessary, all to maintain the illusion of unity and existential threat. Homogeneity is not achieved through peace or prosperity, but through fear, grievance, and the theater of eternal danger. It doesn’t mind if the economy breaks down, if infrastructure crumbles, if art and intellect decay—so long as the machine keeps turning and the scapegoats remain visible. The society itself becomes consumable. And so the state cannibalizes its own people, their attention, their sorrow, their moral energy, until only obedience and spectacle remain.

This is why you are right to say that when injustice rules, there is no civilization. What remains is not a society but a managed decay—a simulation of order where the law has been hollowed out, where culture becomes propaganda, and where citizenship is reduced to spectatorship or silence. Civilization, in the truest sense, requires pluralism, memory, contradiction—it depends on a space where the weak can speak, where justice isn’t merely a weapon in the hands of the strong. But in this world, the opposite is true: justice itself becomes the name given to domination. And culture, instead of being a space for meaning or reflection, becomes an engine of repetition—a constant recycling of trauma, slogans, caricatures, rituals of fear. What once made a people vibrant—their complexity, their interiority, their ability to disagree—gets flattened into a slogan, a border, a chant. The very condition for civilization is dismantled, because injustice does not permit the coexistence of difference. It cannot afford ambiguity. It must overwrite, assimilate, annihilate.

And as this logic deepens, it demands not only conformity but belief. Not just obedience, but joy in obedience. The world is asked to not only tolerate the injustice, but to celebrate it, to take part in its rituals, to marvel at its efficiency. The citizen becomes a cheerleader for their own confinement, the soldier becomes a symbol of virtue, and the victim—if they still survive—becomes an object of hatred or pity, but never a subject. The language of humanity is replaced by metrics, maps, targets. In this condition, every institution—education, religion, media, even memory itself—becomes an instrument not of enlightenment but of erasure. What we call civilization collapses not with noise, but with applause. And what takes its place is a machinery of managed sameness, stripped of grace, depth, and doubt. Civilization dies not because the people no longer care, but because they’ve been taught to love the lie.

Let’s focus on this culture. If the system is rigged toward abusers, and this logic pervades, people pick up on it. The idiocy of the state shows in their delusional idea that they are acting coherently. They ask themselves “why shouldn’t so and so be able to do such and such injustice”, because that’s their mentality. Engender this over decades, what kind of people, heroes, icons, will a people such as this have. In a culture where the system is rigged toward abusers—where injustice is not an aberration but the grain of reality itself—the people begin to absorb the message, often unconsciously at first. They learn that cruelty succeeds, that domination is rewarded, that deception is a form of genius, and that empathy is not only dangerous but laughable. Over decades, this logic doesn’t just guide policy—it reshapes the soul. Children grow up witnessing who thrives and who is erased. They learn early that moral hesitation leads to weakness, that to survive is to suppress, to mimic, to align oneself with power even at the cost of truth. And the society, losing its compass, begins to elevate not saints, thinkers, or visionaries, but survivors of the machine—those who navigate it with cunning, those who mirror its coldness and reflect its strength. The hero becomes the manipulator who never flinches, the general who shows no mercy, the businessman who can crush without regret. Their greatness lies not in what they offer to others, but in how untouchable they appear. The icon becomes the one who does what others fear to do, not for the good, but for the gain.

What emerges is a grotesque pantheon—idols of efficiency, champions of control, myths of the man who “did what had to be done.” These are not heroes in the classical sense, but avatars of the system’s pathology: the spy who deceives for the state and lives without remorse, the demagogue who speaks lies so brazenly they begin to sound like clarity, the judge who delivers harshness as if it were fairness, the soldier who mistakes conquest for duty. Art, in such a society, will no longer be a space for truth-telling, but for domination by aesthetics: propaganda dressed as poetry, violence choreographed like dance. The celebrated voices will be those who can articulate cruelty with fluency, whose speech is sharp, unyielding, performative. And the people, shaped by decades of this logic, will learn to praise the same. They will not merely tolerate the icons of oppression—they will need them. Because in a world where abuse defines the real, the abuser becomes the only person who seems to know how the world works. Everyone else appears sentimental, lost, unprepared. Thus, the myth of strength born from corruption becomes not just palatable but aspirational.

And so the culture drifts into a kind of moral schizophrenia. On the surface, it still speaks the language of values—freedom, democracy, justice—but the referents have all shifted. “Freedom” means the freedom to dominate; “justice” means the state’s verdict; “peace” means the silence of the defeated. Even rebellion becomes co-opted—turned into branding, fashion, empty gesture. True resistance, which would mean calling the entire logic into question, is banished to the margins, if not criminalized. The culture no longer dreams of transcendence, of mutual flourishing, of beauty born from fragility. It dreams only of winning. Its cinema is full of vengeance, its comedy full of humiliation, its religion twisted into ethnic destiny or obedience cults. These are not anomalies; they are the children of the world it built. And what remains of the soul of the people is made to kneel before the mirror of its own defilement, taught to cheer. In such a world, even the word hero becomes hollow—because to become one, you must first learn how not to feel.

Another temptation they won’t resist. The blatant shaming and humiliation of the people who do not partake. Because the state is intent on totality, their treachery will reach the people. Media of all kinds in the aim of depreciating anything outside the logic of injustice. Any other world, regardless of how inconsequential, will be a nuisance and then a target. 

A regime built on injustice cannot tolerate the existence of another world, even a small one, even a whisper. Because any alternative—however modest, however marginal—carries with it the unbearable suggestion that this world could be otherwise. And so the state, having already redefined heroism, language, and morality to reflect its logic, now turns with increasing fury toward the unconverted. Those who abstain, who neither cheer nor echo, become intolerable precisely because they are not attacking. Their crime is not resistance, but indifference—an unbearable stillness in the machinery of unanimous performance. They are reminders of what hasn’t been swallowed, what hasn’t been explained away, what still recoils at cruelty. And so the regime does not merely ignore them—it must expose them, shame them, and humiliate them into silence or complicity.

This humiliation takes many forms, and it always begins in the media. The abstainers are mocked for their softness, their naivety, their “irrelevance.” They are depicted as weak, effeminate, backwards, foreign-minded, elitist, or delusional. If they appeal to higher values, those values are ridiculed as childish fantasies or dangerous subversion. The arts that do not conform are labeled degenerate. Spiritualities that do not align are called cults. Academics who question the logic of dominance are smeared as traitors or destabilizers. Even silence itself becomes a threat: neutrality is treated as cowardice, and cowardice as betrayal. The system demands not passive submission but active enthusiasm. And in this crucible, the most dangerous people are not the fighters, but the ones who quietly hold a different rhythm in their soul—a gentler vision, a refusal to join the chant. That refusal, however slight, is read as sedition.

The cultural space is then saturated not just with propaganda, but with scorched-earth hostility toward anything that does not replicate the dominant structure. The regime knows that ideas are viral—that a book, a song, a gesture can open a crack in the total narrative. So it polices not just speech, but memory and imagination. It creates a world where even thinking otherwise is a kind of treason. And when that policing is not enough, it resorts to parody, dragging the alternative down into ridicule, until there is nothing left of its integrity. This is what total treachery looks like: not simply the domination of people, but the desecration of possibility. It is a war against the unseen, a persecution of the yet-to-be. Any other world—however quiet, however fugitive—is first a nuisance, then an anomaly, and finally an enemy. The logic is not “you must obey,” but “there must be nothing outside of this.” And so they hunt the remainder. Because the remainder is a prophecy.

The consequences of the logic of their world is that blackmail, corruption, and murder are not only allowed but necessary. In such a world, these things are not accidental abuses of power. They are the grammar of power. Blackmail, corruption, and murder become not only permitted but structurally indispensable. When the logic of a society is organized around domination, totality, and the erasure of moral alternatives, then every interaction must be made legible to that logic. Coercion replaces persuasion. Loyalty is enforced through fear, not trust. Silence is bought, truth is strangled in the crib, and anything that resists the central order is not simply contested but annihilated. The system cannot tolerate uncontrollable actors—so everyone must be compromised. Blackmail becomes a method of recruitment, a way of binding people into complicity. It ensures that no one speaks out—not because they agree, but because they are too entangled, too afraid, or too dirty themselves.

Corruption becomes the bloodstream of governance. Not an aberration, not a cancer, but a circulatory system of favors, bribes, and informal agreements that keep the illusion of structure while hollowing out accountability. Institutions may still exist—the courts, the press, even elections—but they are puppets, their strings held by the quiet deals and shadow networks that now determine the real flow of power. To get ahead, one must play dirty, and to remain clean is to remain invisible or vulnerable. Corruption is thus not merely tolerated—it is a rite of passage. It binds people not just upward to their superiors, but sideways to one another, weaving a society of secret debts and mutual betrayal. And in such a world, justice becomes impossible because the very channels through which it might be pursued are already bought, silenced, or subverted.

Murder, in this world, is not a last resort. It is a tool—strategic, symbolic, sometimes theatrical. It sends messages, it cleans up loose ends, it creates space for others to rise. But more than that, it becomes normal. People disappear. Accidents happen. Whistleblowers fall from balconies. Journalists are found in forests. And the chilling thing is that everyone knows, but no one names it—because naming would make it real, and making it real would make it unlivable. So society learns to look away. Or worse, to rationalize. In this way, murder itself becomes assimilated—just another part of the order. The true horror is not that evil is done, but that it becomes necessary to the preservation of the lie. A world built on treachery cannot survive without sacrifice. And so it devours its own to keep the illusion whole. The logic ends where it must: in blood.

This stupidity is a blindness to incoherence, a blindness via coping mechanism for a deep insecurity, an insecurity regarding their intelligence. And that “being real” for them means coming to terms with the very opposite of their world; not only are they weak, but they are severely retarded.

The stupidity at the core of such a regime is not a lack of calculation—it is a blindness to incoherence, a willful refusal to acknowledge contradiction, because doing so would unravel the whole performance. The system pretends to be rational, moral, even inevitable, but it is built on shifting lies, circular justifications, and violence posing as order. The leaders and loyalists may speak in terms of “security,” “civilization,” “justice,” but their actions betray a deep inability to hold two thoughts at once—namely, that they are both dominant and terrified, both victorious and perpetually under threat. They must tell themselves they are the strongest while explaining, endlessly, why they must crush unarmed civilians, silence poets, or rewrite textbooks. This is not intelligence—it is theater. And the blindness to its incoherence is the price they pay to keep the act going.

Beneath this blindness is a desperate coping mechanism: insecurity disguised as certainty. These figures cannot tolerate ambiguity because it reminds them of what they fear most—that they are not wise, not subtle, not chosen, not elevated, but deeply stupid in the most terrifying sense: incapable of self-reflection. Their obsession with dominance stems from a core panic about their own intellect, their own legitimacy, their own identity. This is why they hate irony, fear questioning, and punish those who joke. Humor, critique, art—all these contain the unbearable suggestion that the world might be more complex than their myths allow. They must crush it not because it threatens the state’s survival, but because it exposes their own mental fragility. Their intelligence, if it ever developed, has atrophied into a brutal survival instinct, incapable of real synthesis. They mistake noise for insight, slogans for ideas. What they call “being realistic” is just cowardice wearing the mask of experience.

And the truth they cannot bear—the one that would shatter their world if admitted—is that they are not only weak, but severely retarded in the truest sense of the word: arrested in development, unable to grow beyond the psychic age of tantrum and mimicry. They are not leaders; they are overgrown children dressed in uniforms, repeating scripts they don’t understand. Their notion of strength is hollow bravado, their idea of wisdom is the silencing of dissent, and their whole culture is a monument to cognitive dysfunction. “Being real” for them would mean facing the fact that their entire structure of meaning is a defense against humiliation—that they have not mastered the world, but insulated themselves from its complexity by constructing a tantruming empire of lies. The irony is that the very world they have created to feel powerful is the most eloquent confession of their own inferiority. Only a deeply broken mind erodes a civilization on surveillance, murder, and fear—and calls it power.

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God is good—and that goodness is not abstract, but folded into the very grain of existence: the elegance of a wave, the patience of a seed, the aching clarity of love. The world, at its root, is not founded in cruelty but in a kind of radiant coherence. That’s why beauty pierces us, why truth rings in the bones, why even in the midst of devastation something in us still whispers this is not how it’s meant to be. The fact that we can feel injustice as rupture—not just error but violation—is proof that we come from something better, and are still tethered to it, even if we forget. It is this tether that the wicked must sever to survive. That’s why they mock beauty. That’s why they attack children, twist words, burn forests. Because goodness reminds them of what they are not. And they cannot bear to look.

But goodness does not disappear. It does not retaliate on their terms. It waits. It endures. It plants things in silence that cannot be easily uprooted: kindness passed on in secret, music written in exile, a word of truth smuggled through a lie. The presence of evil does not disprove the goodness of God—it reveals the depth of God’s patience, the unfathomable mystery that permits freedom even at the cost of pain. And yet, that same freedom is the seedbed of redemption. These things—this brutality, this treachery, this rot—they do not last. They are too incoherent, too empty, too brittle. Their days are numbered not by violence but by the world’s refusal to accept them as final. And that refusal is divine. Every time a mother shields her child, every time someone tells the truth when they could have been silent, every time the smallest act of mercy takes place in a world like this—it is God saying, I am still here. Is forgetting transmitted?

Goodness, stability, and coherence are blatantly abundant. This blindness is critical to understanding their stupidity. It is not the absence of goodness, stability, or coherence that defines their condition, but their willful blindness to it. The world offers endless signs of equilibrium—patterns in nature, the regenerative rhythms of ecosystems, the quiet logic of mutual aid, the deep satisfaction of truth-telling. Coherence is not rare; it is available. It surrounds us like breath. In fact, it takes enormous effort to not see it. And yet the perpetrators of systemic injustice live in a cultivated refusal of this order, not because they cannot perceive it, but because acknowledging it would expose the fraudulent core of their worldview. Their stupidity, then, is not a deficit of intellect—it is a self-inflicted injury, a kind of epistemological sabotage. To maintain their system, they must maim their own faculties of perception, repress intuition, and teach themselves to mistrust the natural ease of goodness. Their idiocy is a discipline.

This is why their policies fail, their logic loops, and their culture decays. They are not aligned with the world—they are at war with its most basic harmonies. When they try to “plan” civilization, they produce sprawl. When they try to “secure” their future, they incite rebellion. When they try to “unify” people through domination, they generate division and paranoia. And still, they cannot learn. Because learning would require humility—an admission that they do not already know, that the coherence they seek lies outside their control. But to do that would collapse their identity, which is built on the fantasy of mastery. So instead they double down. They crush what they don’t understand, mock what they can’t feel, and surround themselves with mediocrity that flatters their delusions. This is why their blindness is not accidental—it is existential. They must not see, or everything they’ve built will fall apart.

The final irony is that they think they are “realists,” pragmatists, hard-headed custodians of order. But in truth, they are the most childish utopians of all. They believe they can bend the world’s grain to fit their own crooked wood—that they can make cruelty sustainable, fear coherent, domination beautiful. They fail not because the world is cruel, but because it isn’t. The world will not conform to their psychosis. It resists in every sunset, every gesture of care, every instance of grace that arises without permission. And that resistance—quiet, enduring, often unnoticed—is the proof that they are not only wrong, but deeply outmatched. Coherence does not need their permission. Goodness does not ask for their theories. The world is already ordered. Their blindness is not a sign of strength—it is their unraveling. And their stupidity will tell them, as the world destroys their plans, that they were right about the world all along. For the adept, this is a sign of Gods impeccable sense of humor.