The Lantern and the Demon: Mythic Auditors of Coherence - A Comparative Study in Ethical Thermodynamics and Mythopoetic Control Systems

When Diogenes’ lantern is raised today, it shines through every algorithmic bias audit, every whistleblower’s disclosure, every act of transparency that restores feedback to closed systems.
The demon at the gate reminds us: information divorced from empathy is violence by other means.