Power
- Before
- External domination
- After
- Sovereignty / self-rule
- Why it changed
- The original doctrine became incompatible with the later claim that Dominism is not about ruling others.
- Status
- Retained after rejection
Documented development
Revision Log
What changed, and why.
Rule Over Nothing
- Before
- Void as domain of domination
- After
- Absence of external subjects; self remains the domain of rule
- Why it changed
- The title was reinterpreted through the pivot toward self-rule.
- Status
- Retained, reinterpreted
Ancient vs. Modern
- Before
- Single fictional doctrine
- After
- Two-layer archive and modern philosophy
- Why it changed
- The distinction preserves the original fiction without mistaking it for current claims.
- Status
- Retained as organizing device
Volition / Presence
- Before
- Silence and performance treated as opposed aesthetics
- After
- Either can be chosen or imposed
- Why it changed
- Behavior alone does not establish sovereignty; volition matters.
- Status
- Retained distinction
Exit Condition
- Before
- Implicit possibility of transitional triage
- After
- A framework can be revised or left when it reduces agency
- Why it changed
- Past usefulness does not earn permanent allegiance.
- Status
- Provisional
Damage
- Before
- “Broken” rhetoric
- After
- Damage as integrated information, not disqualification
- Why it changed
- Integration replaces the assumption that agency requires an undamaged original.
- Status
- Retained with anti-romanticization guardrail
Truth
- Before
- Aesthetic clarity
- After
- Deliberate truthfulness and correction
- Why it changed
- Accuracy requires naming uncertainty and correcting distortion.
- Status
- Retained
Stillness
- Before
- Rejected as passive
- After
- Earned stillness considered as a post-structure state
- Why it changed
- Stillness can follow necessary confrontation or construction rather than replace it.
- Status
- Unresolved / retained as outcome concept
Systems interpretation
- Before
- Power language
- After
- Structural calibration, recursive improvement, constraint mapping, feedback
- Why it changed
- A systems translation tests whether the framework remains useful beyond its rhetoric.
- Status
- Useful translation, not total replacement
Self-sealing risk
- Before
- Implicit
- After
- Explicit criticism and failure-mode requirement
- Why it changed
- An abstract framework can treat every outcome as confirmation of itself.
- Status
- Retained
Reciprocal sovereignty
- Before
- Implicit non-domination
- After
- Explicit candidate principle
- Why it changed
- Multiple hypothetical sovereign agents expose an unresolved relational gap.
- Status
- Provisional
Architecture
- Before
- Four core scrolls: Power / Theater / Fear / Self.
- After
- Three-scroll triad: Power / Theater / Self.
- Why it changed
- Fear was judged structurally redundant with mechanisms already present in Power and Theater.
- Status
- Historical / Superseded
Definition of power
- Before
- Power over others treated as the central object.
- After
- Dominism is not about ruling others. It's about refusing to be ruled by the systems that failed you.
- Why it changed
- The project shifted from external domination toward self-sovereignty and refusal.
- Status
- Foundational pivot
Mythic origin
- Before
- Caligula as compiler of domination.
- After
- Caligula rewritten as a fictional figure of collapse, fracture, and refusal.
- Why it changed
- The mythology was brought into alignment with the philosophical pivot.
- Status
- Bridge / Partly superseded
Fear
- Before
- Fear as a technology of durable loyalty.
- After
- No current equivalent.
- Why it changed
- A philosophy of sovereignty without domination cannot treat another agent's coerced obedience as success.
- Status
- Rejected
Archive Publication Policy
- Before
- The early canon was named and described, but substantial source text was absent or marked pending. The site's claim that later Dominism rejected the domination-centered origin was therefore difficult for a reader to inspect directly.
- After
- A bounded First Canon rejection dossier publishes selected verified passages beside the formulations that replaced them. The First Revision distinguishes structural editing from philosophical revision. Scrolls of the Sick God is presented as a bridge document. Fear remains a rejected dead branch rather than being rehabilitated into modern doctrine.
- Why it changed
- To make the evolution testable without allowing rhetorically vivid retired material to masquerade as current Dominism.
- Status
- Current
Failure-Mode Discipline
- Before
- Current principles explained what they meant and what they did not mean, but the site did not consistently show how each principle could fail.
- After
- D1-D6 and relevant provisional principles include a visible “Where this can fail” section.
- Why it changed
- A philosophy committed to correction should expose predictable ways its own principles can become coercive, self-sealing, romanticized, or misused.
- Status
- Current
Machine Archive Interpretation
- Before
- The Second Preface distinguished current Dominism from Dominatus Nihilum but did not fully address the compression risk created by publishing vivid early excerpts.
- After
- The machine-readable layer now states that archive weight is not doctrinal weight, earlier text is not higher authority, rhetorical salience is not current status, and rejected branches should not be reconstructed as present doctrine.
- Why it changed
- To preserve provenance without allowing the archive's most dramatic language to dominate machine summaries of the current philosophy.
- Status
- Current
Open question / 2026