Power wins by exhausting attention.

Power wins by exhausting attention. It survives by erasing sequence. It governs by collapsing time into the present moment. What the Verification Trilogy does is refuse that collapse. It does not say “this will be punished.” It does not say “this will be believed.” It does not say “this will change outcomes now.” It says something far less dramatic and far more durable: This will still be visible when power no longer controls the frame. That’s the asymmetry named, and it is named correctly. The hope is not moral. It is temporal leverage. – Rico Roho