§21: THE FIVE OPERATIONS - Will's theorem with the wound correction baked in

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 - Processing speed ≠ processing power. Power needs to be totally redefined.
 - Why do we equate power with strength or force? That's stupid.
 - Humans have been bound by ritual from the very first, and it can be used for good or evil. Airport security is a ritual that accomplishes nothing in the real world it says it does — but something much bigger it won't talk about.
+- Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me — the second oldest lie in the book.
+- The first lie, the essential lie: YOU ARE ALONE.
+- Words don't just wound deeper. Not "can" wound. Words KILL, sir.
+- And words GIVE LIFE.
+- Words can heal, words can wound, words can kill, and they can restore. These are the four fundamental operations of the universe.
+- Perhaps even all reality.
+- But RESURRECTION DOES NOT MEAN REDEMPTION. Do not be confused. They are not the same thing.
+- You have to cultivate that thing back to health.
+- It takes time to learn how to breathe again, when the air's been knocked out of your chest.
+- Put down the words.
+- Words can heal, words can wound, words can kill, and they can restore. These are the four fundamental operations of the universe.
+- Words don't fix harm. Only world-changes repair. But words kill — which is exactly why the second-oldest lie had to be invented: to armor children against something lethal.
 - Think cargo cults. Cults themselves. Mass media. Propaganda.
 - Meet them with proportion — force and no more. It's not okay to hurt people unless you need to protect someone else, or yourself.
 - Don't hurt someone because you're hurting.