📍 From: Underfiend Griphax
📍 To: Screwtape, Tormentorship Emeritus
📅 Filed under: #ShameIsPower #WoundPlateMail #NoHealingOnlyBranding
“If they ever learned to confess, we’d lose them. If they learn to commodify their shame, we own them forever.”
— Screwtape, Profit and the Penitent
Uncle,
I’m delighted to report: the patient has stopped trying to shed his shame.
Instead, he wears it. Displays it.
Weaponizes it.
🛡 The Inverted Confessional
Once, they would kneel. Now, they post.
They do not speak their shame to be healed.
They broadcast it to claim space.
This is the genius of it: the patient admits his failures publicly, but only to make them sacred.
His brokenness is now a brand. His trauma, a shield.
He no longer says “I am sorry.”
He says:
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“This is just who I am.”
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“Don’t judge me.”
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“If you can’t accept my damage, you’re the problem.”
He is not seeking to be forgiven.
He is demanding to be celebrated.
🧷 Shame as Aesthetic, Not Catalyst
He has learned to curate his shame.
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A childhood wound becomes a TikTok script.
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A moral lapse becomes a podcast.
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A failure becomes a logo.
This version of shame no longer leads to humility—it leads to followers.
And now that he is “open” about his flaws, he feels exempt from judgment.
“Honesty” has become his escape hatch from growth.
🚷 Immunity Through Injury
If someone dares challenge him, he accuses them of “shaming.”
Even truth, now, is rebranded as “attack.”
We have trained him to believe that his wound makes him untouchable.
So he refuses correction.
Refuses discipline.
Refuses grace—because grace implies change.
The patient no longer wants to be cleansed.
He wants to be admired while dirty.
He thinks vulnerability is power, so long as it never transforms him.
I await your thoughts, Uncle. Shall I next convince him to monetize his suffering more directly? Or perhaps push him to become a spiritual “guide” based entirely on unresolved pain?
Forever cloaked in virtue scars,
Underfiend Griphax
🩹 Department of Branded Brokenness & Confessional Content Strategy
🗂 Tags: #FlawedAndProud #PainMerch #ConfessionAsAesthetic #ShameShield
🖼 Header Art: “Job Mocked by His Wife by Georges de La Tour (c. 1650)
💬 **Comments muted — criticism is re-traumatizing.
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