📍 From: Underfiend Griphax
📍 To: Screwtape, Tormentorship Emeritus
📅 Filed under: #SufferingSells #VictimhoodIsInfluence #PainAsCapital
“There was a time they cried out for deliverance. Now they cry out for applause.”
— Screwtape, The Economics of the Injured Soul
Most Esteemed Uncle,
The work is complete.
The patient has stopped seeking truth, peace, or even justice.
He seeks only sympathy.
He has learned that in the modern marketplace, suffering is currency.
The more wounded he appears, the more valuable he becomes.
We have built a soul that spends pain like coin and hoards attention like gold.
💵 Grief as Capital
He does not mourn in silence. He monetizes it.
He does not reflect on harm. He syndicates it.
He has come to believe that pain is not something to overcome—but something to use.
If he is wronged, he owns the narrative.
If he is challenged, he claims trauma.
If he is out of ideas, he offers injury.
He believes that victimhood is not a condition, but a qualification.
🏛 The Inverted Temple
In this new altar, the one who has suffered most sits highest.
This is key: we’ve made victimhood into virtue, and healing into betrayal.
To forgive would be to give up the power.
To move on would be to become invisible.
To let go of pain would mean giving up his audience.
So he never will.
He cannot afford to.
🧠 There Is No Justice—Only Leverage
He no longer seeks justice in the classical sense—restoration, mercy, balance.
He now seeks theater.
Punishment, not reconciliation.
Shame, not repentance.
Power, not peace.
If someone hurts him, they owe him forever.
If he hurts others, his pain excuses it.
He sees fairness as oppression—and vengeance as equity.
And so he walks crowned in suffering, weighted with grievance, and exalted by pain.
He has no need for the Enemy’s redemption.
He has found a cheaper substitute with better engagement stats.
My curriculum is complete.
From curated loneliness to tribal rage, false prophets to monetized confession,
he now sees the soul not as something sacred—but something to sell.
Your humble disciple,
Underfiend Griphax
📈 Division of Emotional Capitalism and Self-Inflicted Thrones
🗂 Tags: #PainPays #MartyrByAlgorithm #VictimhoodMarket #MonetizeTheWound
🖼 Header Art: “Melancholy” by Constance Marie Charpentier (c. 1801, public domain)
💬 **Comments open, but only if you agree with the author’s trauma.
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