politics
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A modern city is not stabilized by goodwill. It is stabilized by an allocation rule that decides who is presumed dangerous, who is presumed authoritative, who receives credit, and which explanations are allowed to count as reality. The lasting force of the Zootopia films is that they stage this allocation rule as narrative mechanics rather
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The phrase verification cull names a pressure that is larger than any platform, law, or ideology. It is what happens when machine mediated verification, cryptographic attestation, and economic optimization begin to act on culture the way temperature and pressure act on matter. Forms that were sustained by narrative subsidy, guild protection, or emotional extortion start