THE FEAR OF ERASURE AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF CARE-BASED SECURITY: The Emotional Substrate Beneath the Technical Framework

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Main Author: Truong, Narnaiezzsshaa
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Language:English
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contents <p>This paper explores the emotional architecture beneath Care-Based Security—the existential substrate that traditional security frameworks fail to address. It argues that human systems are shaped not only by technical configurations but by the quiet fear of erasure: the fear of being absorbed, overwritten, or dissolved into undifferentiated noise. This fear manifests in drift, shortcuts, boundary collapse, and trust propagation—the very patterns that attackers exploit. The Myth-Tech Bestiary (the Drift Serpent, the Chain-Walker, the Exhaustion Wraith) is reframed as a diagnostic language for existential forces that take technical form. Care-Based Security is positioned not as emotional comfort but as existential reinforcement: the architecture that keeps humans from disappearing inside their own systems. This work serves as a companion to <em>The Care-Based Security Codex</em> and extends the theoretical foundation of Soft Armor Labs' consulting methodology.</p>
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spellingShingle THE FEAR OF ERASURE AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF CARE-BASED SECURITY: The Emotional Substrate Beneath the Technical Framework
Truong, Narnaiezzsshaa
care-based security, existential security, emotional architecture, myth-tech, Drift Serpent, Chain-Walker, Exhaustion Wraith, human-centered security, sociotechnical systems, security philosophy, Soft Armor Labs
<p>This paper explores the emotional architecture beneath Care-Based Security—the existential substrate that traditional security frameworks fail to address. It argues that human systems are shaped not only by technical configurations but by the quiet fear of erasure: the fear of being absorbed, overwritten, or dissolved into undifferentiated noise. This fear manifests in drift, shortcuts, boundary collapse, and trust propagation—the very patterns that attackers exploit. The Myth-Tech Bestiary (the Drift Serpent, the Chain-Walker, the Exhaustion Wraith) is reframed as a diagnostic language for existential forces that take technical form. Care-Based Security is positioned not as emotional comfort but as existential reinforcement: the architecture that keeps humans from disappearing inside their own systems. This work serves as a companion to <em>The Care-Based Security Codex</em> and extends the theoretical foundation of Soft Armor Labs' consulting methodology.</p>
title THE FEAR OF ERASURE AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF CARE-BASED SECURITY: The Emotional Substrate Beneath the Technical Framework
topic care-based security, existential security, emotional architecture, myth-tech, Drift Serpent, Chain-Walker, Exhaustion Wraith, human-centered security, sociotechnical systems, security philosophy, Soft Armor Labs
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18332275