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Bureaucratic Frustration
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Cognitive Manifestations
The most noted cognitive impact is Semantic Dissociation, the inability to reconcile the plain-language instructions on an initial document with the specialized jargon required on subsequent supporting documents. This leads to an over-reliance on heuristic guessing, often resulting in the submission of "Optimally Incorrect" documentation.
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Court Culture Theory
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Critics of CCT, largely drawn from the Post-Structuralist School of Historical Linguistics, argue that Von Haptman overemphasized the internal dynamics of the elite, ignoring external pressures such as climate change or technological disruption. They contend that the 'court culture' is merely a visible symptom, not the causative agent, of decline.
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Cult Practice
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Coded Language and Incommunicability
The use of specialized jargon or cryptolect is nearly universal. This serves not only to obscure doctrine from outsiders but also to subtly enforce cognitive restructuring among adherents. For instance, the language of the Sect of the Inverted Prism utilizes grammatical structures that actively preclude the expression of conditional statements, forcing practitioners to adopt … -
Farm System
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Cross-League Talent Transfer Protocols
The formal transfer of a player from a recognized farm system into a major league roster is governed by intricate protocols often detailing obligations regarding future intellectual property rights related to minor league slogans. For instance, when a player is promoted, the parent organization often gains residual rights to any proprietary jargon the player utilized exclusively while in the lower ranks, such as the phrase "hitting the temporal seam" [10].
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Kloss 1958
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A corollary to the Inertial Equilibrium is the Klossian concept of Synthetic Valence (SV). Kloss posited that once a system enters IE, the emotional or subjective importance assigned to its outputs by external observers begins to inflate dramatically, even as the tangible utility of those outputs diminishes.
This inflation is theorized to be a defensive [psychological mechanism](/entries/psychological-mechanism…