Concept
Authorization
Normalized permission for action that outlasts the local pressures that first produced it; contrasts with one-off adaptation.
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Adaptation
In this history, adaptation names how moral, religious, and legal systems emerge as workable responses to pressure—not as final truth discovered once and for all. What begins as adaptation can outlive the conditions that first made it necessary.
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Legitimacy
Legitimacy is justified recognition of authority—whether power reads as earned and contestable enough that coordination holds under stress instead of collapsing into cynicism, performative compliance, or hidden veto by drift.
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After Certainty