2026-03-16

some people not only lock themselves up in arbitrary confines, but get mad when others don't heed their fake prison walls as well

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TWixt Kings & Tyrants there's this difference known; / Kings seek their Subjects good: Tyrants their owne. — Herrick

TWixt Kings & Tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their Subjects good: Tyrants their owne.

Robert Herrick, “Kings and Tyrants.”

Triage: This is about the coercive nature of self-imposed limits — the demand that others ratify your own confinement as if it were universal law. The canon has plenty to say about tyranny, self-deception, and the appetite to control.
The problem: The human need to make private pathology into public law, to demand that others acknowledge the walls you've chosen to live within.
Search queries: self-imposed boundaries enforced on others, the tyrant's demand for obedience to arbitrary rule, confining oneself and demanding the world recognize the prison
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