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Divide and Conquer: How We Lost Each Other While Arguing About Everything Else

Every era has its favorite distraction. In our time, it’s division—cleanly packaged, endlessly reinforced, and sold back to us as identity, safety, and moral clarity. We are encouraged to argue over borders, labels, and beliefs while the deeper machinery shaping daily life remains largely untouched. The result is a culture fractured into camps, each convinced the other is the problem. This is not accidental. The Oldest Strategy in the Book “Divide and conquer” isn’t a metaphor—it’s a strategy as old […]

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