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The Gospel of Greed

There is a grim existential irony in how those most convinced of possessing an absolute moral truth, acting within a field shaped by fear, reflex, and desire, come to cultivate greed, cruelty, and exclusion in the name of that certainty, mistaking the felt coherence of dominance for righteousness, and remaining largely unaware that what they […]

Tags authoritarian psychology, christian nationalism, cultural pathology, entropy and control, ethical collapse, faith and power, field logic, ideology and fear, ideology critique, moral certainty, moral inversion, moral psychology, political theology, power and belief, religion and politics, religious nationalism, sacred violence, systems theory, trumpism

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Antithesis Trap

Post author By G
Post date Jan 28, 2026
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Identity formation requires antithesis. In the United States, political coherence has long been organised around opposition: liberty against tyranny, democracy against monarchy, capitalism against communism, freedom against control. These oppositions carved boundaries that stabilised national identity, generated purpose, and coordinated collective action. Opposition was not incidental. It was structural. Without it, American identity would have […]