What do MAGA rallies, cancel mobs, and fundamentalist parenting all have in common? A shared addiction to moral certainty—and a terror of complexity. This piece unpacks the neurochemistry, identity collapse, and cultural damage caused by principle-over-people thinking—and why unlearning it is the most rebellious act of all.

I find it ironic that you’d be hard pressed to find an American, let alone a bible thumping version who didn’t pride themselves on being FREE, free of tyranny and of the “wages of sin,” and yet they’ve long used a synonym for freedom - LIBERTY - as a slur for anyone going beyond their set proprieties.

It's like eating food with just a little bit of arsenic on it. You feel like your needs are getting met, especially if you're worried about starving, but you're also slowly dying.