By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
June 27, 2026
These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse.
As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team ! Our team good, other team bad.
The roots of this simplistic either-or are obvious: our tribe good, other tribe bad.