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Performative Belief: When You Adopt Opinions to Prove Membership
The cruelest part of performative belief is that it feels like conviction. You get emotionally invested. You argue passionately. You feel outrage when...
FIELD NOTES: When Moral Certainty Becomes Permission to Violate Sacred Space
Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo's research on the "Lucifer Effect" explains how ordinary people commit extraordinary cruelty when they believe they're serving a higher...
Online Arguments Aren’t Debates… They’re Boxes.
For years, the idea that social platforms were flooded with fake users lived in the realm of conspiracy or exaggeration. The phrase “dead...
You are (probably) in the Framework
We have more access to information than at any point in human history, and yet public disagreement has hardened, not softened.
Reality, Responsibility, and the Death of Shared Truth
Cosmically speaking, you barely register. And yet, inside the narrow slice of reality you do touch... you matter profoundly.
‘Civil War’ Isn’t a Prediction. It’s a Label.
Once someone is placed inside the container, curiosity stops. You don’t need to ask who they are. You already “know.” Another label is...
THE MACHINE: A User Manual for the Invisible Empire Running Your Life
There’s a reason tribalism is powerful: it gives people protection from discomfort. Your tribe decides your opinions for you. Your job is just...
The Enemy Factory: How Tribalism Kills Thinking and Steals Your Name
There’s a reason tribalism is powerful: it gives people protection from discomfort. Your tribe decides your opinions for you. Your job is just...
You’re Not Living in the Real World. You’re Living in the Story You Tell Yourself
Most people aren’t living in reality. They’re living in an interpretation of reality that protects their ego.