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Have you ever watched someone build an entire reality around a lie, not just any lie, but one so dark, so twisted, that it could never possibly be true? And yet, either you yourself or someone you care deeply about becomes trapped inside of it anyway? Tempests of lies compound, build alt realities. Welcome to the Shadowscape. Within my framework, extractive systems theory: systems where individual power is prioritized, sustained by others who absorb cost. They dwell, they sprawl, which I make a point to avoid at all costs. Whenever I see one of its rotten, splintered, horrible doors, here in our sometimes cruel, but still real, real world, you've placed them in a position of manipulation. Shadowscape doors are invite only. Our fellow human beings lead us to places that are called Shadowscapes. Closed relational ecosystems wherein extractors craft alternate realities built to serve only themselves. They are built by those who both populate and thrive within extractive systems. People I, and my broader framework of extractive systems theory, refer to as the residents. Narcissists, dirty cops, chronic bullies, abusive bureaucrats, toxic ex-spouses, manipulative bosses, and all of these creatures, by the way, are legendary, routine, and particularly in their own dedicated chapters for them. Extractors are secretly bizarre and obsessive. They are sustained by drama and circus-level theatrics. And their conclusions are, unfortunately, very often tend to be literally only beneficial to the extractor. And nothing to charge for their individual victims. While damaging to systems. The rot of extractors too often festers undetected for years. Extractors = the corrupted.