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June 11, 2026

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1: Diabolism How does one feel about their race? When its name is uttered, does the heart swell with quiet pride, or does the head sink under a crushing weight of humiliation? Your race is like your family. An angelic family bequeaths you reputation and joy; a rotten one hands down curse and insult. The brazen, of course, bear it well. They may have emerged from utterly decayed lineages, yet they walk unflinching, immune to shame. It is, perhaps, a practical choice. If one comes from a lineage one cannot alter, the wisest refuge may seem to be shamelessness. Likewise, if you belong to a race that lived in harmony with nature, preserved its rhythms, cultivated virtue, nurtured a wholesome society, and pursued knowledge with sincerity, you inherit quiet dignity and joy. But if your race stood as a curse across centuries—plundering, swindling, invading, devastating the religions, cultures, and languages of others—then you cannot rewrite your roots. What then remains? To some, the onl...

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1: DEFCON The sprightly young lady asked an elderly man the meaning of DEFCON. She hadn’t encountered the acronym before—it wasn’t quite lexical, not yet woven into everyday speech. Yet literature, ever inclusive, had made room for it. DEFCON, short for defense readiness condition, refers to five graduated states of military alertness, used by U.S. forces since 1959. Most nations have their own systems of alert, tailored to their strategic doctrines, though few are as widely recognized as the American one. After the great wars, the United States emerged as a dominant force on the world stage. Its culture, language, literature, art—and nearly every other facet of its identity—began to ripple outward, influencing distant shores. Hollywood films and American novels often featured the acronym, embedding it in narratives of tension and urgency. People across the globe came to know DEFCON, even if unaware of their own country’s equivalent. And as the word settled into common under...

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