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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 6:
The Triumph and the Freeze
A week after the Motherlode hit, the world was no
longer collapsing; it was dissolving.
The three demands, Mandatory Transparency for
Finance, Public Disclosure for Fiction, and Full
Auditing for Faith had done their work. Global
institutions weren't fighting The Truth Collective
anymore; they were fighting the public, and losing.
Every time a politician or CEO tried to issue a
reassuring statement, millions of users ran the audio
through The Gaze, and the resulting Truth Tax score
would expose the lie before the sentence was finished.
The system choked on its own toxicity.
The final concession came late one night. The
emergency session of the global congress, convened
under the crippled authority of the United Nations
(UN), passed the Global Mandate for Absolute
Transparency, the Truth Law.
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