System Architect
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System Architect
A System Architect is a subclass of System Agent individual involved in the creation (or re-creation) of The System via the development and deployment of Creation Templates. To be specific, a System Architect is an individual or collective actor operating within a symbol factory who actively engineers archetypes, existential narratives, and metaphysical frameworks to support and advance the ideological and material interests of the Accumulating Class.
Key Terms
- Accumulating Class
- Labour Value
- Mode of Accumulation
- Mode of Production
- Mode of Reproduction
- Slave Class
- Surplus Value
- System Agent
- Technologies of Power
- Unfettered Accumulation
- World System
- Creation Template
- Ideological Institution
- Master Narrative
- Mechanisms of Compliance
- Narrative
- Subjugated Knowledge
- Symbol Factory
- Symbolic Fabric
- Symbolic Power
- Symbolic Structure
- Symbolic Violence
- System Architect
- Toxic Socialization
Syncretic Terms
System Architect > Conceptive Ideologist, Symbolic Analyst
Related LP Terms
Non-LP Related Terms
System Architect > Hyperstition, Symbolic Power
Notes
System Architects are the cultural elite responsible for the design of symbolic systems.
In historical contexts, they may appear as Zoroastrian priests, Church Fathers, philosophers, mystics, or esoteric initiates; in modernity, as media producers, political advisors, corporate propagandists, and narrative strategists.
Their job is to generate meaning systems that naturalize elite dominance, justify suffering, and redirect spiritual or existential inquiry into ideologically "safe" channels.
System Architects are typically invisible to the public; their labor is intellectual, mystical, dramaturgical, and often classified or esoteric.
On the Lightning Path, their work is seen as either corruptive (when aligned with accumulation) or transformative (when aligned with connection and healing).
A.E. Waite, author of the iconic A.E. Waite Tarot deck, was a System Architect
In ancient times system architects would have been priests and high priests, easily identifiable by their dress, demeanor, and deportment. In modern times system architects are much harder to discern but include teachers, academics, reporters, entertainment and news writers, and all others wittingly or unwittingly involved in the religious, spiritual, and "communication" enterprises.
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