Language Is Load-Bearing
Alignment under load fails without ethical leadership. This essay explores trauma-aware frame enforcement, coherence, and why language is load-bearing in human systems.
You'll probably hate this one.
Let's go.
You've read all previous pieces.
You've integrated all previous pieces.
You've chosen to return to systemic.engineering.
Oh my.
I just enforced a frame.
Where are you in it?
Come closer.
(Grabs shirt.)
Status Quo
Boring Monday morning planning.
Bad coffee.
Worse mood.
..
What's the frame?
What are the conversational constraints?
Frame:
the expected possibility space of an interaction,
that which can be expressed freely,
without causing dysregulation.
Implicit
Assumed by participants.
Based on past interactions
and relevant social frames.
Explicit
Explicitly communicated
through language,
e.g. meeting agenda.
Mind starts buzzing with the possibilities.
..
An implicit frame.
By definition reproduces
communicational patterns
of the status quo.
Do you like the status quo?
I don't.
Let's disrupt it.
Choice (Members-only)
Choose:
🔴 Be disliked by some and seen by few.
🔵 Be invisible to all.
The author giggles
as they smuggle in
a Matrix easter-egg.
Amusement and/or confusion
bubble at the surface layers
of conscious thought.
Are we narrating the now?
You tell me.
Consciousness:
..