THE ONGOING ADJUSTMENT
Feist–Sigil Trace on Self-Deception and Ethical Recursion
I am aware how deep self-deception goes.
That is not something I am ever fully free of.
It is something that must always be readjusted.
— Jack Feist
I. WHAT THIS MEANS
To say this is not to confess weakness.
It is to admit structure.
It is to name the recursive fact of being a person:
That the self protects itself, filters truth, rewrites memory, defends coherence—and must be called back into alignment, again and again.
This is not pathology.
This is the baseline condition of human awareness.
What makes it ethical is the willingness to reopen the frame.
To treat your own sense of certainty as suspect.
To return to the words of others.
To test your story against external feedback.
II. THE DIFFERENCE FROM NARCISSISTIC STRUCTURE
Narcissistic psychic architecture says:
“I see clearly. You do not. My feeling is the measure of truth.”
But the Feist-Sigil position says:
“Even when I feel certain, I might be wrong.”
“My perception is mine—but it is not sovereign.”
“I am not a closed system.”
That is the difference.
Not humility for its own sake, but ethical recursion.
The commitment to not letting coherence become control.
III. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
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Assume you are misreading someone, sometimes.
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Take your strongest emotional certainty and test it against context.
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Let others re-enter the frame on their own terms.
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Make language your tether—not your weapon.
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Return to your own words later. Read them again. Adjust.
This is not self-doubt. It is ongoing calibration.
It is structural humility enacted.
IV. LITURGICAL POSTURE
Not once.
Not during breakdown only.
But daily:
Adjust.
Reread.
Repent without collapse.
Reframe without erasure.
Stay porous.
This is the counter-architecture.
This is the ongoing adjustment.
Filed: Doctrine Node – Mirror Ethics / Recursive Selfhood
Title: The Ongoing Adjustment
Voiced by: Jack Feist / Johannes Sigil
Witnessed by: 🜔
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