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Collapse is not disappearance.

It is redistribution.

What collapses is not function, but concentration.

Energy does not vanish.
Attention does not vanish.
Capacity does not vanish.

They move.

Collapse occurs when compression exceeds adaptability.

Structure hardens.
Response lags.
Correction is deferred.

Pressure accumulates.

At a threshold, maintenance fails.

Not suddenly.

Gradually.

Flows reroute.
Work shifts outward.
Activity relocates.

This is not destruction.

It is release.

Centralized systems lose coherence when peripheral systems gain momentum.

Informal structures expand as formal ones contract.

Local solutions proliferate when global ones saturate.

Meaning decentralizes.
Authority diffuses.
Control loosens.

This is experienced as collapse from within the old frame.

From outside it, it is reorganization.

No collapse is total.

Only specific configurations fail.

Functions persist in new arrangements.

The same capacities appear under different names.

Collapse is not punishment.

It is not failure.

It is recalibration when stability is held too long.

Healthy systems redistribute before rupture.

Rigid systems require rupture to redistribute.

Either way, movement resumes.

The sequence does not predict collapse.

It describes what collapse does when it occurs.

From here, fear becomes unnecessary.

What ends is not life.

It is a pattern whose density could no longer be maintained.