You don’t lose your vitality by accident — it gets rerouted long before you recognize it as power. In practice this means your erotic energy (your creativity, your drive, your sexual charge, your desire to build or conquer or seduce or create beauty) is redirected into consumption: scrolling, fantasizing, overeating, overworking, performing, anything that burns your fire without producing anything real. A person connected to their erotic core becomes unpredictable, magnetic, disobedient — they quit the wrong relationship, they walk away from jobs, they create art, they demand a life that fits their soul. The system can’t afford humans like that, so it numbs men through overstimulated low-value pleasures and it numbs women through self-critique, shame, and endless comparison. The blade cuts deepest when you sense how much of your life would change instantly if your eros wasn’t being drained into nothingness.