Cruelty doesn’t only speak.
It organizes. It measures. It files.
In Episode 3: Systems of Distance, we explore how dehumanization moves from language into structure; how bureaucracy, technology, and procedure turn moral distance into machinery.
Systems don’t need hatred to function. They need compliance.
A form signed, a button pressed, a policy approved; each act feels neutral, procedural. Yet together, they make it possible for suffering to unfold without resistance.
From statistics that erase stories to euphemisms that disguise violence, this segment reveals how distance becomes design, and how that design hides responsibility behind words like efficiency, security, and order.
But systems are not destiny.
They are built by people, and they can be questioned by people.
Every moment of refusal, a form left unsigned, a phrase challenged, a question asked, becomes an act of rehumanization.
Because cruelty doesn’t only exist in emotion; it thrives in structure.
And once we learn to see the design, we can choose to disrupt it.
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