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The most dangerous possession is the pattern in your mind that has been repeated so long it now feels like you.
By the time a false pattern becomes visible, it has usually already been fed long enough to feel natural.
That is why Zombie belongs to Waxing Gibbous · Build.
Build is the phase of accumulationThese — AccumulationThese names accumulation: possessions, titles, achievements, beliefs, communities, and other extensions gathered around identity.Read full entry →, pressure, and inhabitation. In its true form, it is devotion: the patient strengthening of what deserves structure. In its distorted form, it becomes occupation. A pattern gathers enough repetition, enough emotional energy, enough aesthetic reinforcement, enough internal rehearsal that it stops feeling like a pattern and starts feeling like a self.
That is zombie-consciousness.
The great symbolic force of the song lies in its…
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