Friction as Control

Fees. Delays. Permissions.

Power rarely announces itself as force.
It presents itself as process.

This is Chapter Three of The Law of Water, an examination of how friction is used to slow movement, shape behavior, and quietly enforce control.

Friction doesn’t feel like oppression.
It feels reasonable.
It feels administrative.
It feels necessary.

This chapter explores why modern systems rely on resistance instead of restriction, why delays are never neutral, and how control scales more efficiently through inconvenience than force.

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Observe the system.
Then move accordingly.

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