An Abstract system (n.) is a rulebook that never has to meet the people it sorts.
An Abstract system (n.) is a system which has penetrated daily life and depends on trust while offering none of the moral rewards of personalized trust and all of the risks and vulnerability borne by the abstract system.
An Amber alert (n.) is a flare fired over a city where everyone glances up and then goes back inside.
An Amber alert (n.) wakes an entire state at three in the morning to memorize a plate number they will forget by breakfast.
An Amber alert (n.) is a missing child turned into traffic for a minute.
An Amber alert (n.) is a fire alarm pulled in every building in the county because one of them is burning.
A Belief system (n.) is like the house you were born in, where you notice the walls only when you try to move the furniture.
A Belief system (n.) is judged by the people inside it on how it feels and by everyone else on what it makes them do.
A Belief system (n.) is held together by the questions it teaches you not to ask.
A Belief system (n.) is essentially a relief system.
A Binary (n.) is a light switch installed in a room that needed a dimmer.
A Binary (n.) is a question built so that answering it is already agreeing to it.
A Binary (n.) always has a third option, held by whoever wrote the other two.
A Binary (n.) is a question built so that answering it means picking a team.