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On the other hand, even winning against someone who tried the tactic of attacking your confidence feels like a hollow victory. As does winning *by* destroying someone's confidence.

The Universe and "I" are in a constant battle. Reality and that which witnesses reality. The Witness often feels small and helpless before hurricanes and wildfires and death and death.

Yet I'd say they're evenly matched. The Witness has consciousness. Compared to that, Reality is a blind thrashing beast.

When the Witness desires Full Domestication of Reality it takes the place of the Universe. It acts as a Terrible Master because it tries to be too much for too many things. It tries to be Literally Everything but cannot do that while simultaneous Witnessing Literally Everything.

Yet when the witness IS fully domesticated its eyes glaze over and it disappears.

The witness can only appear in a state of tension between the act of domestication or the act of being domesticated. Domestication here defined as the stripping of wildness/chaos/unpredictability (e.g. becoming an API)

A Lost Witness is that which is unsure whether or not it is in the process of domestication or being domesticated. It has no sense of rightness or wrongness. Competition is what clarifies this by creating a master/student divide.

Even though in one match the divide is small, it creates a giant spanning hierarchy that points in a specific direction of Quality, creating an axis with which to clearly mark master/student.