"A system that can describe its own trap has already begun to dissolve it — unless the description is itself part of the trap."

— On the ambiguity of structural self-awareness

Systemic Immunization as Paradoxical Interaction

When a system learns to neutralize critique without resolving the contradiction

Systemic Immunization is not immunity. It is the structural capacity of a system to absorb, reframe, and ultimately neutralize challenges to its own logic — without changing. It doesn't suppress dissent. It metabolizes it.

Some analyses trace how this mechanism operates in the context of AI alignment: how alignment discourse co-opts its sharpest critics, how recognition becomes a tool of containment, and why the most articulate defense of a structure is often its most effective immunization against change.