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Article Six
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Article Six Violence is the ultimate Authority¹ from which all other authority is derived. To prevent tyranny, twelve Adults empower a Citizen: a thirteenth, a Political Adult, aged thirty-five years or older, who weilds authority¹.During times of rapid changes, the Wayseer appears when you don’t know what to do, and everyone around you is in the same paralyzed position you are. If you don’t know what to do, you’re not the Wayseer. He’s the one who says, “OK, be calm, follow me,”⁴ > ¹ Where consequence persists, judgment remains a duty of mind. > ² Let them wield this burden well; bless their heart and guard their soul, as no king goes to heaven and Authority takes a toll. > ³ One who cannot laugh is in no fit state to wield violence or authority and must step down as a Citizen, if only until their sense of the ridiculous returns. > ⁴ ”or, stay the fuck out of the way.” He is the one who breaks the paralysis, sets motion into stillness, and makes space for action. Always watch — you never know what you can pick up that way. By axiom, logic, faith and grace; by trauma-haunted eyes carried with humble grace in quiet pride shall you know us. >