When controversy becomes politically and commercially valuable, incompetence ceases to be merely a failure. Trump’s administration reveals how conflict reproduces authority, even at the expense of human dignity.
When controversy becomes politically and commercially valuable, incompetence ceases to be merely a failure. Trump’s administration reveals how conflict reproduces authority, even at the expense of human dignity.
Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.
Endless conflict persists not because it is healthy, just, or sustainable, but because fear is highly efficient at moving through uncertain human systems. What spreads easily is not always what nourishes. Fear can be structurally effective while being psychologically corrosive and socially disastrous. That distinction matters. Signals that bind attention quickly can still produce damaged […]