FAQs

The Clarity Engine is a symbolic filtration system designed to reduce mental noise from modern media. It helps you identify distortion, score clarity, and ritualize your media intake. It’s not a feed or AI tool — it’s a structured mirror for attention hygiene.

Mindfulness and CBT are both valuable, holistic approaches to mental health — and can absolutely be used alongside the Clarity Engine. This tool doesn’t replace them. The Clarity Engine focuses on a specific subset of mental strain: technology-induced distortion — especially doomscrolling, clickbait, and algorithmic overload. Before the 2000s, the internet was optional. Today it’s ambient, like electricity. While older generations had time to build stable attention systems, many today grow up without ever knowing undistorted input. Telling someone to unplug is no longer viable. Most won't — or can't. That's why the Engine exists: not to shut off the stream, but to teach you how to navigate it without damage. It's a symbolic filtration ritual to protect your nervous system inside the noise.

Most feeds deliver content based on engagement. The Clarity Engine teaches you how to filter instead — to see clearly and decide what’s truly worth your time. It’s a system for intentional input, not more input.

Symbolic language compresses meaning and invites deeper reflection. Mythic tone helps shift your mindset out of passive scroll mode. This isn't aesthetic fluff — it's part of the ritual structure designed to slow down the mind and restore clarity.

A ritual is a repeated, intentional act done with presence. The Clarity Engine turns media filtering into a symbolic ritual — a moment where you choose signal over noise, and reclaim control over your nervous system.

Much of this started around 2010 to 2012 after the rise of Facebook. This was the time when social media companies switched from selling news to people to selling people's attention to advertisers. Advertisers redefine feedback, both negative and positive, as engagement — and so the only way to prevent clickbait from spreading is to simply not engage with it.

Prepaid news is usually propaganda — such as political messaging or product advertisements. These are paid for by sponsors before the news goes live. Postpaid news is typically clickbait, using the 7 Deadly Sins to attract attention and generate ad revenue after publication.

It was created by someone operating under the symbolic identity 'The Architect'. The project is offered freely, with no tracking or monetization model. The identity is meant to keep the focus on the system itself — not the person behind it.

The path forward is up to you now. Focus on other things in life such as friends, family, interests, and hobbies. Use a minimal noise news feed that focuses on things you can act on and that actually affect you, without unnecessarily disrupting your emotional state. Use an anti-sin news digest. You can choose to continue doom scrolling, but this time with clarity, understanding that it is nothing more than entertainment. Forge a new path — now that you have broken free, you can focus on creating rituals that fortify your mind.

Because of limited human short-term memory, endless short content loops feel like they never stop. The Clarity Engine models this experience to help you understand and manage it better.

Imagine your job is digging holes. One day, your boss brings in a flying super shovel that finishes the task in one second. - When a business saves time, it earns more. When a worker saves time, they earn less. The holes are still being dug. The problem isn't the shovel — it's the structure around it. Until the system changes to reward wisdom, creativity, and stewardship instead of raw output, new tools will only deepen the imbalance. Yes — AI will replace many jobs. But AI isn't the core problem — the system is.

It refers to feelings of losing one’s sense of self, often paired with loss of purpose during major societal shifts like AI disruption. The Clarity Engine addresses this by providing perspective and reframing purpose.

AI is a tool for research and explanations. The meaningful part comes from your effort and growth. Use AI to assist, but do the hard work yourself and compete only with yourself.

Human perfection lies in imperfection and the pursuit of bettering yourself. AI is a tool that doesn't struggle or strive, like an advanced shovel that digs faster but doesn’t create meaning.