Downfall

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   I'm pre-announcing my own downfall.   There's no reason to think that's necessary at this point.  It's just the standard phase entered when:

• The path a person's following is walled off from them.
• Encouragement to take a different path has been rejected.
• Not out of disdain or spite but because the path definitely exists.
• It's right there [icon finger pointing somewhere].
• Someone walled off a perfectly good path, gave no reason why, and added a detour leading to a different destination.
• The finishing stroke follows the suggestion a person's gotten too "big for their britches" and a correction is needed.

   Depending on your level of curiosity you might consider this more complaining and whining then constructive debate.  I won't disagree with that.

   But there's no debate and their won't be any.

   For some reason - there's no conspiracy here and there doesn't need to be - there's no outrageous pressure being exerted to take a different path.  At least not visibly and it exists without a way to objectively demonstrate it's occurring.  Proof is difficult to provide when it requires measuring things we can't see.

   The pushback used to erase and demolish this path is absolutely perfect though.   I'd try to describe how it works in detail:

• Who gets to know of it and who doesn't?
• How much does any one person get to know?
•  How coordinated or disorganized are those encouraging the detour?
• How is communication handled?

   But like people sitting in cars, head lights on and engines running with no destination to drive to... these details don't seem to exist.

   You might be wondering what that kind of plausible deniability is worth.

   It's priceless.

   Entire governments have worked to perfect such a thing for decades.  If they've succeeded we'll never know what about.  That's not typically how achievements are managed.

   It's backwards.

   But on a city level with many competing interests...  actually I've never encountered something like it before.  I have no idea what to think.

   I do have a few license plate numbers.  Two of those were on the same vehicle during the course of a single day.   But you have to remember, it's my downfall I'm preannouncing.

   I'm now looking for a parallel path at least in the same direction,

   The only really disconcerting part?

   The people who definitely know where the path leads are coworkers.

   Any question with even the slightest hint of being related is off limits.