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And improved
language concealed ancient impulses
more efficiently than prohibition ever had.
One could envy without naming envy.
Take without theft.
Discard without betrayal.
Destroy without killing.
The conscience,
relieved of sharp edges, ceased resistance.
It did not die. It dimmed.
A softened instrument registers less alarm.
Thus inversion required no rebellion.
Only relief.
The relief of not judging.
Not resisting. Not denying.
And relief, once tasted, became preference.
Preference became a new norm.
The new norm, defended, became new moral order.
At that point, the inversion was complete —
Though nothing appeared inverted.
Virtue still named. Vice still named.
Commandments still cited.
Only their gravity reversed.
And once gravity reverses, then...
Falling in nowadays
feels like
Rising.
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