The Daily Heresy

Context is supposed to help us understand.
Lately, it mostly helps us excuse.

Every claim is wrapped in it.
Every action softened by it.
Every line blurred until nothing sharp remains.

We’re told to “consider the context” whenever something feels wrong.
As if wrongness were a misunderstanding.
As if harm dissolved when properly explained.

Context used to illuminate meaning.
Now it neutralizes judgment.

Nothing stands on its own anymore.
Everything depends.
Everything is complicated.
Everything requires a footnote before it can be criticized.

This is not wisdom.
It’s paralysis.

A world obsessed with context becomes allergic to conclusions.
If every act is situated, no act can be condemned.
If every decision is contextual, no decision can be owned.

Power loves this.

Context turns responsibility into atmosphere.
No one chooses; things merely happen.
No one decides; systems emerge.

The more context we add, the less agency remains.

This doesn’t make us more humane.
It makes us more tolerant of drift.

At some point, understanding becomes avoidance.
Explanation becomes anesthesia.
And clarity is dismissed as naïveté.

But moral judgment is not ignorance.
It is orientation.

Without it, we don’t become nuanced.
We become navigable.

— J. Deep

Writer. Witness. A heretic in the age of algorithms.

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