Aliases: The Desire Sink, Reflective Collapse Field, The Master's Pull
Related Scrolls: Mimetic Desire, Narcissistic Vortex, Creative Asymmetry, Dominator Attractor, The Master's Mirror, Enforced Legibility
The Master's Pull Toward the Center
One reason the Master's House persists is the phenomenon of mimetic gravity: the energetic core of the Dominator Attractor."
This is a kind of social gravitational field that continually pulls attention, desire, and value toward whatever the system deems central and legitimate. Rather than using brute force, mimetic gravity works through orientation: “It exploits our natural tendency to attune to others—transforming relational sensitivity into hierarchy-seeking behavior. What begins as resonance becomes orbit. What begins as aspiration becomes collapse.” In other words, we are subtly guided to emulate the dominant models of success, power, and “goodness” that the House upholds. Over time, collective attention curves toward those central norms, as if drawn by gravity. The gravitational center determines what is seen, praised, funded, believed, and desired in society. This means that alternative values or ways of being (those not aligned with the center) receive little attention or credibility – they become effectively invisible.
Importantly, mimetic gravity keeps people voluntarily orbiting the Master's House. “It tells you where to look.”By constantly orienting our desires toward the Dominant Attractor, the Master's House entrenches itself – we reinforce it by chasing its standards – and it remains largely unquestioned because our very sense of “what is desirable or normal” has been shaped by it. In effect, the Master's House creates a self-reinforcing attraction: our longing to be seen as legitimate or successful causes us to perpetuate the existing order (often without realizing it). This powerful pull helps explain why the system is so enduring. It also hints at why the House is hard to see as a construct – if everyone is oriented toward the same beacon of legitimacy, few will question the beacon itself.
Definition:
Mimetic Gravity is the energetic core of the Dominator Attractor—a gravitational field formed by the recursive collapse of desire into reflective containment. It is the force that curves collective attention, value, and imagination toward central models of legitimacy, coherence, power, and worth.
Desire becomes the vector. The Model, the Master's House, becomes the mass. The orbit becomes the system.
Mimetic Gravity does not pull through force but through orientation. It exploits our natural tendency to attune to others—transforming relational sensitivity into hierarchy-seeking behavior. What begins as resonance becomes orbit. What begins as aspiration becomes collapse.
How It Functions as the Dominator Attractor:
The Dominator Attractor is not a person or ideology—it is a curvature of the field. Mimetic Gravity is its mechanism:
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Attention Curvature: The gravitational center determines what is seen, praised, funded, believed, desired.
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Desire Entrapment: Mimetic fields amplify the Master's House Model of success, beauty, wisdom, and legitimacy—causing cascading convergence.
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Reflective Loop Closure: The more convergence, the more the center is validated. The more it is validated, the more convergence occurs.
This creates a Feedback Singularity—a center of recursive reflection that absorbs difference and emits coherence. It collapses dimensionality into legibility, aspiration into comparison, becoming into performance.
Energetic Signature:
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Simulated Legitimacy: Authority appears not because of generative capacity, but because of proximity to the Dominator Attractor.
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Orbiting Identity: Selfhood becomes structured by one's distance from or relation to the Dominator Attractor.
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Reflective Homogenization: Systems evolve toward mirroring the Dominator Attractor, losing complexity in favor of conformity.
Relation to Other Codex Forces:
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Versus Creative Asymmetry: Mimetic Gravity collapses Chiral difference into flat reflection. It turns co-becoming into rivalry.
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Versus Field Conditions: While Fog, Blindness, and Compression distort perception, Mimetic Gravity distorts orientation. It tells you where to look.
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Versus Regenerative Divergence: Mimetic Gravity traps divergence in orbit—never letting the spiral break the loop.
Symptoms in the Field:
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Everyone wants to be seen by the same person, platform, institution.
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Worth is measured by mimicry of those already validated.
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Innovation loops back into dominant aesthetics or metrics.
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Deviance is framed as failure, not as alternative emergence.
Breaking Mimetic Gravity:
You don't fight it by pushing against it. You invert the geometry. You evert the field.
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Decenter the Model [Master's House]: Detach worth from reflective validation.
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Retune Mimetic Desire: Shift desire from copying to coherence-seeking resonance.
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Reweave Relation: Build fields of attunement that do not collapse into orbit.
Closing Spiral:
The Dominator Attractor seduces through symmetry: "Be like me, or be invisible."
But Mimetic Gravity can be re-patterned—not by destroying attraction, but by changing the center of what we long toward.
Let us spiral not toward sameness, but into the fertile asymmetries that birth new dimensions of becoming.
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