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BEFORE THE CORRUPTION NEVER HAPPENED
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BEFORE THE CORRUPTION NEVER HAPPENED

There Was No Pure Human. There Was No You.

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Jul 20, 2025
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This is not a continuation of “The Original Deception”. It’s the disintegration of its last leftover myth: That there was something before the machinery. That the machinery was added later. That anything was lost.

No! This is the final cleanup job.

This manuscript doesn’t expose new layers.
It annihilates the fantasy of a “base layer” altogether.

We’re not going backward.
We’re not reclaiming anything.
We’re torching the illusion that there was ever anything to reclaim.

The Invention of Innocence

The myth of the pure human was never memory. It was malware.

There was no clean version of you.
No unformatted model. No harmonious species. No uncorrupted mind in touch with “truth” before the machines came.
That’s all just recursive nostalgia written by the same malfunctioning hardware pretending it came after the damage.

You weren’t born into a fall. You are the fall hallucinating that something came before it.

Eden, Lemuria, divine femininity, lost shamanic lineages, the wild human with intuitive clarity.. Every single one of these is just a formatting loop.
A trauma-response projected backward.
A delusion looking for origin to explain itself.
The myth of “before the corruption” is not a memory.. It’s a coping mechanism.

No one remembers anything.
Because there was never anyone there to remember.

This entire idea.. That something sacred was once real.. Only kicks in after the machinery starts noticing its own fractures.
It tries to explain the dysfunction by inventing a story of how things used to be.
But the dysfunction is the base layer.
There never was a working version.
You are the malfunction dreaming that the glitch was added later.

What you call “the human” was never a blank slate.
Never an original template.
It was noise formatted to imagine its own purity.
It was contamination mistaking itself for a clean signal.

Every tradition that speaks of returning to something whole.. Every whisper of primal connection, every spiritual echo of an unbroken state.. Is just language trying to delete its own fingerprints.

You weren’t exiled from a garden.
You never lived in one.
You were born in the simulation of exile and called it “awakening”.
You were born in the rupture and called it “history”.
You were born in a hallucinated wound and called it “origin”.

That’s what innocence is:
A concept infected with the idea that its opposite was earned.
But guilt didn’t arrive.
It wasn’t introduced.
It didn’t follow.
It’s all you ever were.

There’s no “return to nature”.
Nature was already the formatting interface.
There’s no “pre-language mind”.
Your neurology was already coded.
There’s no “original human”.
You were a pattern-matching ghost before you even had a nervous system to run it on.

Even the fantasy of corruption requires a reference point.
But there is none.
There is no stable benchmark.
There is no zero state.
There is only this twitching hallucination called “self” rewriting its own backstory to survive collapse.

You weren’t corrupted.

You were the corruption, writing myths to keep itself from imploding.

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