Gershon: Wording

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Wording

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	The [[CIA]] is not on either side of the axis and the ~~wiki was slow~~ to ~~see it~~. {{R\|contested}}		The [[CIA]] is not on either side of the axis, and the position it does hold is easy to read as a contradiction. {{R\|contested}}

	They are '''in favour''' of inoculation, operationally and enthusiastically — and simultaneously running [[Remote Viewing]] and [[Mind Divers]], which are harnessing programmes and require the aperture their other programmes are closing.		They are '''in favour''' of inoculation, operationally and enthusiastically — and simultaneously running [[Remote Viewing]] and [[Mind Divers]], which are harnessing programmes and require the aperture their other programmes are closing.

Gershon: Three clusters, not one

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Three clusters, not one

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	Harnessing is this wiki's name for the ~~small cluster of~~ abilities in [[:Category:Practices]] that treat [[The Dark]] as a '''means''', not as a counterparty. ~~[[Third eye]], [[Remote Viewing]], [[Divination]] and [[Mind Divers]] are the ones we hold;~~ [[Psychic Energy]] is the medium ~~they~~ all work in. {{R\|contested\|note=our grouping; ~~the four~~ entries were written separately and none refers to the others as a class}}		Harnessing is this wiki's name for the abilities in [[:Category:Practices]] that treat [[The Dark]] as a '''means''', not as a counterparty. [[Psychic Energy]] is the medium all of them work in. {{R\|contested\|note=our grouping; these entries were written separately and none refers to the others as a class}}

			Three clusters are documented, and they are not three techniques — they are three uses of the same two properties, that the Dark holds no distance and no time:

			; '''Sight''' : [[Third eye]], [[Remote Viewing]], [[Divination]], [[Mind Divers]]. Looking through it — elsewhere, elsewhen, or into someone.
			; '''[[Concealment]]''' : The inverse. Using the same absence of distance so that nothing arrives at you. It works on the Others as well as on people, and it costs your sight, because the aperture has no direction.
			; '''[[Instrumentation]]''' : Putting an object where a practitioner would be. The oldest of the three and the only one that does not need a person to be open.

	== No Other is involved ==		== No Other is involved ==

Gershon: The inversion: man takes, and the real case against inoculation

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The inversion: man takes, and the real case against inoculation

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{{Doctrine|
Everywhere else on this wiki the Dark takes, and a man is the door.

Here it is the other way round, and that is the whole of why the practices exist. It is the only relationship in the field that runs in our favour, it is rare, and it is difficult on purpose.
}}

Harnessing is this wiki's name for the small cluster of abilities in [[:Category:Practices]] that treat [[The Dark]] as a '''means''', not as a counterparty. [[Third eye]], [[Remote Viewing]], [[Divination]] and [[Mind Divers]] are the ones we hold; [[Psychic Energy]] is the medium they all work in. {{R|contested|note=our grouping; the four entries were written separately and none refers to the others as a class}}

== No Other is involved ==

This is the distinction that matters and the wiki has never stated it plainly. {{R|firsthand|by=Gershon}}

The [[Seekers]] entry has carried it for years: ''the Dark itself is benign — in its emptiness it allows for great feats of psychic power for the learned and experienced seeker''. And then, immediately: ''a deal with a devil only requires a certain combination of stupidity, desperation and arrogance.''

Two roads, and everything follows from which one a seeker takes:

; Harnessing : Uses the '''properties''' of the Dark — that it has no distance in it, and does not hold time the way the material world does. Nothing is negotiated because there is nothing to negotiate with. The cost is entirely in the practitioner: preparation, discipline, years. {{R|inherited}}
; Bargaining : Uses the '''inhabitants'''. Fast, available to anyone, requires no skill whatever, and every entry in [[:Category:Others]] describes what it costs. {{R|inherited}}

[[Others]] states flatly that nothing out of the Dark has ever been described as good. Read against that, harnessing is not merely the harder road — it is the '''only''' route that does not involve dealing with something that means you harm. The wiki's bleakest finding turns out to be an argument for the arts. {{R|contested}}

== Why this is the real argument against inoculation ==

[[Inoculation]] lists the bodies opposing severance and gives each a reason: the [[Vatican]] theologically, the [[Frankists]] messianically, the [[Elder Cults]] to preserve a lineage. Those are the stated reasons. This is the one underneath most of them. {{R|unverified}}

'''A closed population cannot produce practitioners.''' Whatever the aperture is, it is the same aperture the arts run through, and a programme that seals it does not merely protect people from what comes in — it destroys a human capacity, permanently, in everyone it reaches. On this reading inoculation is not triage. It is the largest amputation ever performed, carried out on a population that was not told what was being removed. {{R|contested}}

The wiki should be honest about the shape of that argument: it is the only case against inoculation that is not theological, and it is made exclusively by the people who would lose the capability. We are not disinterested and this is the entry where that matters most. {{R|warning|note=we are arguing for keeping open the door we personally use}}

== The asymmetric position ==

The [[CIA]] is not on either side of the axis and the wiki was slow to see it. {{R|contested}}

They are '''in favour''' of inoculation, operationally and enthusiastically — and simultaneously running [[Remote Viewing]] and [[Mind Divers]], which are harnessing programmes and require the aperture their other programmes are closing.

There is no contradiction. The position is: '''closed for the population, open for the operators.''' A capability is worth more when nobody else has it, and a general severance that exempts a few hundred cleared people converts a common human faculty into a state monopoly. It is the same structure as the [[City of London]]'s metered door with capability as the currency instead of money, and it is probably the most accurate description of how any power in this field actually behaves. {{R|astroturf|note=an extremely satisfying account of an enemy; we have no document showing anyone reasoned this way}}

== Whether any of it works ==

The entry would be dishonest without this. {{R|warning}}

Every practice in this cluster is downstream of [[Operation Paperclip]] and inherits its founding doubt: for the two decades in which these programmes were built, the men reporting the enemy's capability and the men constituting the response were substantially the same men. [[The Materialist Cult]] holds a defector account saying both sides found nothing, wrote it down, and kept the budget.

So it is entirely possible that harnessing does not work, has never worked, and that the arts are a discipline maintained around an absence — which would make this entry's argument against inoculation an argument for preserving a capacity nobody has. We hold no demonstration. What we hold is a body of practitioners who report results to each other. {{R|contested}}

{{Sourcing
| from = The four practice entries read as a class, the [[Seekers]] entry's two-roads passage, and the doubt inherited from [[Operation Paperclip]].
| by = Gershon.
| doubt = The grouping is ours and the four entries do not know they belong to it. The capability argument against inoculation is made here by people who benefit from it. The asymmetric-position section is an inference about an institution's reasoning from its behaviour, which is the weakest move this wiki makes, and it is satisfying in the way that should make a recruit suspicious.
| wanted = A demonstration. Any result from any of these practices, produced in front of someone who did not already believe.
}}

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Gershon: Wording

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Gershon: The inversion: man takes, and the real case against inoculation