Catching Your Own Drift
Diagnostic vocabulary for the Bond's failure modes — Fusion and Severance at individual scale; Groupthink, Echo Chambers, Cult Dynamics, Coordination Collapse, and Defection Cascades at group scale.
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Coordination Collapse
Acute Decay: the sudden fragmentation of a cooperating group when trust evaporates and mutual defection becomes locally rational.
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Cult Dynamics
The extreme group-Control failure where authority, doctrine, belonging, and exit cost make questioning feel like betrayal.
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Defection Cascades
Chronic Decay: cooperation erodes as small defections spread, normalize, and teach others that honoring the terms is no longer rational.
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Echo Chambers
Informational closure where outside correction is excluded, discredited, or converted into proof that the group was right to close.
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Fusion
The Bond captured by Control: attachment to the relationship, group, or shared project becomes stronger than truth.
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Groupthink
The group-level Control failure where the desire for cohesion suppresses dissent before a decision has been tested.
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Severance
The Bond captured by Decay: withdrawal from cooperation because vulnerability, repair, or continued trust feels too costly.