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3. The Beautiful Lie of Division: How We're Being Kept Apart

The Engineering Problem with Democracy
https://defragzone.substack.com/p/the-engineering-problem-with-democracy

Great article. I saved it.

Please note that Crusaders Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez have been getting fantastic applause in deep red states with their unifying message: The oligarchs are dividing us to keep us from attacking the real problem, insane concentration of wealth. (pix below)

Believe me, they’re not afraid of you being wrong. They’re afraid of you being united. A society that disagrees about everything poses no threat. A society that agrees on even one or two fundamental things? That’s a revolution waiting to happen. That’s a system failure from their perspective. That’s game over.

So they keep us arguing about breakfast. About sports teams. About which billionaire is slightly less terrible than the other billionaire. About pronouns and statues and who gets to use which bathroom. And while we’re busy with all that, the game continues above our heads, unchanged and unchallenged.

You don’t have to agree with your neighbor about everything. You don’t have to share their religion, their diet, their politics, or their taste in music. But you might want to ask yourself: what do we agree on? Because that’s where the power is. That’s what they’re afraid of. That’s the exploit in the system they never patched.

And maybe, it’s time we started playing to win.