Sanctiphagy

Why does the institution celebrate suffering instead of preventing it?

“Why am I being given an award instead of the help I asked for?”

heroism, gratitude, appreciation, resilience

You might be experiencing Sanctiphagy if: Have you been publicly celebrated for something that cost you? Did the celebration address the conditions that caused the cost? Did the conditions change after the celebration? Do they rely on people like you continuing to absorb this cost?

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All mechanisms

False Elasticity
Actuarial Medicine
Sanctiphagy
Procedural Erosion
Administrative Homelessness
Manufacturing Inevitability
Seemingly Neutral Systems
Temporal Capture
Wound Worship
Hyperreal Labor
Charismatic Systems
The Heisenberg Subaltern
Load-Bearing Design
The Capture of Maintenance
Lucid Disorientation
The Subtext Economy Has Collapsed