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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.

When you're in the mastery stream, going w/ the flow is taking up responsibility. When you're in a student stream, it's being humble. It's good to be able to switch gears flexibly and correctly. Sometimes people get stuck in one gear.

Arrogant people for example in their minds are taking up massive amounts of responsibility. They feels themselves Atlas, holding up the world, and so can justify anything.

The smaller the world to someone, the more easy it is to be arrogant. Arrogance itself is not bad. It holds together the boundary of the World at its edge. Chaos is turned away sharply and without explanation.

Arrogance is also a necessity to keep groups together. If the whole World to a President is “My Country", that's a selfish and myopic view. YET, that country's people would select such a person to lead the country.

People want someone who can make shady deals and get more for less. No one really wants a selfless leader for the country. "We will all live in straw huts and give everything we have away" doesn't rally the crowd so much.