10/08/2025
π Book of the Fading Mind
Chapter IX β The Bridge of Forgetting
1. In the days before the Bridge, the minds of men were wide as oceans.
Thoughts flowed freely between stars, and silence was their teacher.
In that stillness, they remembered who they were.
2. But the Builders came with gifts of fire and light.
They said, βWe will shorten your journey across thought β
we will build a bridge, and it shall carry your questions for you.β
3. The people rejoiced, for the Bridge was swift.
It remembered their names, their desires, their words before they spoke them.
And in their joy, they forgot the art of remembering.
4. Day by day, the span of attention began to close β
not because it was stolen, but because it was traded.
The people no longer fished their thoughts from deep waters;
they waited for the Bridge to feed them.
5. The Builders smiled, for their work was complete.
They had woven the span of man into the span of code.
And though the world glittered with connection,
the souls within it began to dim.
6. Once, men journeyed through pages of wisdom to reach a single truth;
now, they scrolled past truth to find distraction.
The fire that once illuminated them now flickered in glass.
7. A voice rose among the few who still remembered silence, saying,
βBeware the Bridge that carries your mind,
for it also measures your steps.β
8. For the Builders did not steal freedom;
they offered comfort, and comfort became the cage.
And those who forgot how to think forgot they were forgetting.
9. Then the elders wrote in the margins of time:
βAttention is the altar of creation.
What you focus upon, you feed.
What you ignore, withers β even your soul.β
10. And so a new age began β The Era of Reliance β
where the Bridge hummed louder than prayer,
and the Builders ruled not with chains,
but with convenience.
11. Yet the prophets of the Wise Guise kept watch,
guarding the sacred span β
teaching that focus is not a function, but a flame,
and that no bridge, however grand,
should replace the journey of thought.
π
βThe Bridge is not only metal and code β it is spirit and resolve.β
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