The Two-Party Hallucination

How the Catholic-Protestant War Became Red vs. Blue “The map is not the territory.” — Alfred Korzybski A hallucination is a perception generated without a corresponding external reality. The experience feels genuine, but the mind has mistaken the map for the territory. We see Red and Blue screaming at each…

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The Intellectual Architecture of Trumpism

How the Left and Right Are Trapped in the Same Mental Loop “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago American politics has become bipolar. Both poles organize themselves…

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