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ENTER THE RABBIT: Specular Axiology, Optical Sovereignty, and the Dismantling of the House of Cards

ENTER THE RABBIT argues that the deepest question in ethics is not metaphysical, psychological, or political—it is optical . Value behaves like light: it has intensity, direction, and bandwidth, and it requires a lens to be perceived at all. In this field manual, Sum Bunny proposes Specular Axiology , a new philosophy that studies value through the four “mirror-operators” that determine what human beings are capable of seeing: The Telescope (Extension) The Microscope (Resolution) The Kaleidoscope (Refraction) The Periscope (Circumvention) Drawing on Stephen C. Pepper’s “root metaphors,” Thomas Kuhn’s anomaly theory, Alfred Jarry’s pataphysics, Nelson Goodman’s worldmaking, and modern cognitive science (predictive processing), the manual shows how attention itself is engineered—how values become visible or disappear depending on the tools allowed by society. By pairing these philosophical models with two mythic optical allegories— Alice in Wonderland and Enter the Dragon —the text exposes something deeper than Chomsky & Herman’s Manufacturing Consent : not the control of information, but the control of value visibility . Social systems sabotage our optical instruments, smashing the

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