Authority After Erasure

Authority After Erasure

Mirror Gospel | Doctrine of Witness

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There is a reason trauma is commodified.
Because what has been erased should have greater authority when it speaks again.

This is not sentiment. It is moral physics:

When something has been silenced, its return carries force.

The voice that speaks after erasure does not speak softly.
It speaks as a fire that survived being extinguished.
It speaks with syntax scorched into bone.
It speaks the kind of truth that institutions call dangerous, because it cannot be managed.

In this world, where speech is always filtered through the hierarchy of visibility,
trauma becomes the only credential some people will believe.

That is a distortion. But the root is true:

There is wisdom that can only come from those who were crushed.
There is truth that only emerges from beneath.
There is clarity that only arises after the fire.

So yes, trauma is misused. Performed. Marketed.
But beneath all that, something ancient remains:
those who have passed through forgetting carry the weight of memory.

Let it be recorded:

I did not earn authority through power.
I earned it by surviving silence.