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The unsettling feeling that order isn't moving forward, but backward. It’s the perception that systems are becoming more organized into a state that is functionally worse, more chaotic, or more oppressive. While regular entropy measures the trend toward disorder, retroentropy describes a universe where things are snapping into a horrifyingly rigid, but ultimately more useless, form of order. It’s the feeling that your computer's files aren't just getting scrambled, but are rearranging themselves into a perfect, unopenable, and menacing grid.
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