Someone who grew up being abandoned may unconsciously choose unavailable people, withdraw before intimacy becomes secure, or provoke rejection so that the ending arrives on terms they recognize. Someone repeatedly told they were worthless may sabotage opportunities because success creates a terrifying contradiction: What if the old story about me was wrong? What am I without it? Familiar suffering can feel safer than unfamiliar possibility.

Relationships, buildings, bodies, communities, institutions, skills, even a person’s sense of self all drift toward disorder unless someone keeps repairing, renewing, and paying attention to them. Entropy is not evil, but it is relentless.

eve if it were a court room

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Deep in the backwater sector of the Orion Arm, the High Council of Galactic Observation intercepts Earth’s unencrypted radio and television bleed-off from the late 2000s and 2010s. While most interstellar species broadcast clean, mathematical telemetry, humanity’s primary deep-space exports turn out to be deeply compressed, highly edited YouTube Poop videos.

https://youtu.be/Y7WtkdLQ6PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_hnD7m00M

Smashing the Opponent

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9QUQz7xRQDA&si=Uplw-EhcN99trV2z

https://youtu.be/uPTlgGh1908

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=CGkqp-OtCCM

Smashing the Opponent

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9QUQz7xRQDA&si=GmOvdc9qM0DYYBTQ