Relational Subcriticality Principle

Canonical definition

The Relational Subcriticality Principle is the identity that the relational constitution of Self-Models and the subcriticality condition of the field are one object seen from two directions, not two facts: the couplings through which Individuals mutually constitute one another's Self-Models are identically the loops whose Loop Gain must remain below the critical threshold for the field to persist. It follows that a deformed Self-Model left un-re-fit is simultaneously a damaged constituent of the field (relational aspect) and a loaded loop raising the field's gain toward the next crossing (subcriticality aspect), and that the field's own persistence condition therefore requires the correction of every Self-Model a perturbation deforms, no node excluded, the perpetrator included. The principle grounds the field-correction obligation from which Cascading Support and Cascading Consequences are derived. Plain language. The way people are woven into each other, each person's sense of self being built partly out of the others around them, and the condition that keeps a community stable, its feedback loops staying below the runaway threshold, are not two separate things. They are the same web of connections looked at in two ways. So when a Harm damages people across a community, leaving anyone's damage un-repaired is both a tear in the web and a loaded spring pushing the community toward its next crisis, which is why the community has to repair everyone the Harm touched, the victim's circle and the wrongdoer alike, to hold itself together.