THE FAR SIDE OF PATHOLOGY

In fact, every system needs its pathology to operate and evolve.
Creative management before the system release means predicting possible future invalid reactions in order to create tools for strong directive responses or interventions; and to design methods of updates that last indefinitely.

There cannot be harmony without tension – tension reveals the boundaries of user adaptation.
There cannot be any straightforward action without the knowledge of possible reactions. Those reactions define the straight or desired direction itself.
There cannot be any growth without opposite forces to deal with – and to absorb the spoils.
There cannot be experience, or even enjoyment, without personal effort to invent methods of finding, sorting, and responding to opposing forces.

Even a small child enjoys playing with building bricks because of gravity – the invisible force always trying to tear down the tower.
It's not the tower itself that helps the child's brain to grow. It's the struggle with gravity: the teacher, the source of enjoyment, and the essential element of the brick-play system.
Gravity is dynamic – it affects every brick slightly differently and reveals both the objective limits of physical laws and the subjective limits of the child's current abilities.
Try to build the tower for the child to spare them the struggle, bringing the completed structure you imagined them achieving. There will be no interest in the artifact.
The child may even perceive your good intentions as invasive, limiting, or at least game-spoiling.
It’s like cheating in computer games: at a certain point, it kills the point of playing.

The feeling that you have everything under control doesn't come from obedient, functioning parts of the system. It comes from never-ending – but ultimately successful – adaptation to pathology.

Cooperative forces are just as important as reactions to obstacles. But when they're in perfect working condition, they’re invisible.

You don’t think about your car’s headlights until one stops working. Then you face the necessity of response to a sudden dynamic pathology.
You can ignore it – the engine works without light, and you can keep driving. Maybe you hadn’t even noticed it for the entire long drive before.
But now you know. And you must choose how to act.
Postponing the fix or ignoring the problem is a response – and it puts you in a different state than before you noticed the malfunction.

Maybe you think there’s no real change – but you’ve already entered the realm of management: evaluating risks, plans, moods, daytime, traffic regulations, and more.
You’ve also gained new experience, triggered by your response to the shift in conditions.
What’s the key difference from before?

You are the master of the situation, free to use your skills to handle it.

If you’re lazy and never check the headlamp, an unrevealed pathology gets the chance to dominate and destroy the system.
Like being hit by another driver who didn’t see your car in the dark.

But your awareness of a small malfunction lets you adapt your driving – the system of your car and your journey – to prevent failure and manage the fix on your terms, not in an emergency.

Dynamic pathology is proof that the system is alive.

It forces continuous reflection on changes in the operating realm, preventing stagnation and obsolescence – especially when you build in your own subsystem of expected responses to undesired events.

With pathology management, you can recognize patterns in failures, user misuses or bugs, and set up automatic responses – saving time and resources.
You can analyze the impact of your responses and tune not just your protection, but the system itself.

You can never truly know the level of your security without live malfunctions, penetrations, and real attempts to exploit or destroy.
But if your system is robust enough, you don’t need to predict every possible behavior (which is impossible anyway).

You just need to watch, learn, adapt – and keep improving.
Let the system run without interruption, as long as you wish to keep it alive.