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Abstraction as Power

\n Abstraction is how power scales without looking like power. When people become variables,
\n cases, records, or segments, consequences can be managed without meeting the human.
\n Abstraction is not lying; it is distance.\n

\n The question is not whether abstraction is useful—it is indispensable. The question is
\n what happens when abstraction becomes the governing layer and moral interruption disappears.\n

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