Upstream Notes
Slow the beam before it hits the prism.
This section is not a feed in the social media sense. It’s a running log of pressure points: places where coherence is thinning, where trust is being extracted, or where fracture is being sold back to us as identity. No outrage bait. No forced optimism. Just an attempt to look directly at the bending of the light.
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Oct 2025 · DraftWeaponized Certainty and the Performance of Knowing
We’ve started rewarding confidence more than accuracy. That means the people most sure of themselves are often the ones least in contact with reality. This isn't an accident — it's an incentive structure.
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Oct 2025 · DraftFragmentation as a Business Model
The market figured out that distrust is renewable. You can harvest it over and over. You don't have to solve anything. You just have to keep people convinced that solving it is impossible.
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Oct 2025 · DraftClarity Without Humiliation
The moment you humiliate someone, you don't change their mind. You lock them inside it. So maybe the work isn't “convincing.” Maybe the work is creating conditions where change is even survivable.
For dialogue, not combat:
press@civicprism.org
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