This is the first of two reflections on how power adapts.
In this piece, I’m tracing the quiet evolution of control — how it moves from the visible to the procedural, from spectacle to paperwork. Chains did not disappear. They were redesigned. Violence did not vanish. It relocated.
This is not an argument about nostalgia or inevitability. It is an examination of mechanism.
Because when harm changes form, it becomes harder to name — and easier to deny.
