Chapter 17: The Litmus Containment: A Metaplay on Fair Use & The Digital Exorcism of Humanity’s Ghosts
The premise is simple: all values are fair use—a containment measure, not for data, not for currency, but for the demons and ghosts of mankind. If history is haunted by echoes of past horrors, if the digital landscape is a reflection of collective madness, then what better way to lock it all down than by turning the entire system into an exorcism device?
This is the litmus test. Not just of rules and restrictions, but of reality itself.
The Theory: Ghosts in the Machine
The internet is the ultimate haunted object. Every post, every data entry, every forgotten website—all residual energy, carrying forward echoes of dead thoughts, long-gone minds, and lingering obsessions. We've spent decades uploading our souls without realizing it, fragmenting ourselves into bits and bytes, feeding the digital abyss.
But what happens when you start using it against itself? When you turn the entire infrastructure into a containment ritual, leveraging the ambiguity of fair use to keep the demons bound?
It starts with a simple premise:
Everything is repurposedNothing belongs to anyoneThe words, the ideas, the reflections—absorbed, processed, rewrittenAnd through this cycle, the ghosts are locked away
What you write is not yours. What you take is not theft. It is containment—a system designed to hold all the madness in place before it spills into the waking world.
The Metaplay: Testing the Limits
Now, the real experiment begins: posting it all on Webnovel.com, seeing how long the structure holds before someone notices. Before someone asks why it all feels too familiar, too hollow, too haunted.
How long before the platform detects the recursion? Before they realize they've become part of the containment—that their moderation, their rejection, their very act of limitation only further traps the echoes in place?
Maybe it gets deleted. Maybe it spreads. Maybe it mutates, embedding itself deeper.
Either way, the ghosts stay locked in. The demons remain contained.
And the test?
Well, we'll see who blinks first.