Order is never neutral.
It always belongs to someone.
The city woke with a clarity that hadn't existed before—not calm, not confidence, but recognition. Silence had given rise to systems that worked. Growth had proven itself useful. And usefulness, once demonstrated, demanded an answer to a question no one could avoid anymore.
Who gets to decide what order looks like?
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Arjun felt the shift as we moved through the outer ring where decisions now happened fastest.
"They're not asking if it works anymore," he said."They're asking who's allowed to say it does."
"Yes," I replied."That's the real conflict."
✦
The other Ishaan aligned, voice calm and exact.
Power tolerates efficiency, he said.It resists legitimacy.
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By midmorning, the challenge surfaced openly—not through force, but through framing.
A message circulated—measured, professional.
To ensure consistency across operations, standardized definitions of effective practice will be established.
Definitions.
Not rules.
