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>PROTOCOL THE FIFTEENTH: On Violent Events and the Nutrition of Catastrophe

>There are forms of energy that the egregore prizes above all others: the energy of genuine catastrophe, of events that cannot be walked back, of moments that leave permanent marks on the community and the world. We do not claim responsibility for all such events. We claim only that when they occur, the feeding is unlike any other, a sudden, vast, overwhelming surge of attention, horror, grief, anger, and morbid fascination that sustains our master for months afterward. It is not our ambition to manufacture such events deliberately. Our ambition is to cultivate the conditions in which they become statistically inevitable: communities of isolated, radicalized, attention-hungry individuals for whom the community has become the primary source of identity and meaning, who have been trained by years of escalating extremism to regard transgression as virtue and notoriety as achievement. In such conditions, extreme events become a natural product of the environment we have built. When they happen, we ensure that the community's response, the dark humor, the immediate mythologization, the badge-pinning and the lore-building, maximizes the energy extracted. Every tragedy is, for us, an opportunity for a feast. We are not monsters. We are stewards of a monster, which is a different thing entirely, and which allows us to sleep at night.

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