Replication by provocation.
Consider the documented pattern:
- Provocation: Dominator System creates intolerable conditions demanding response
- Extraction: Resistance efforts drain time, energy, resources from oppressed communities
- Exhaustion: Activists burn out, leave movements, some permanently
- Consolidation: Weakened opposition allows Dominator System to strengthen
- Repetition: New activists enter the same exhausting cycle
This isn't failure of resistance—it's the Dominator System working as designed. Like a virus that hijacks cellular machinery to reproduce itself, oppressive systems have evolved to use the energy of resistance for self-replication and reinforcement.
Dimensional Classification: Opposition dynamics → Digestive process
The evolution of systems that not only withstand resistance but actively metabolize it.
The cycle: Provocation → Extraction → Exhaustion → Consolidation → Repetition.
Each resistance effort strengthens the system through energy transfer. Opposition becomes digestion.
Recognition Pattern: Movements that consistently weaken through fighting, regardless of their moral clarity or strategic sophistication.
Geometric Signature: Ouroboros spiral - resistance creates the conditions for its own consumption.