Chapter Seventeen
The War for Reality
When trust in the old institutions collapsed, the fight became one over what's even real.
Reality turned into a contested space. As trust in the legacy institutions thinned, the fight stopped being about any single fact and became something larger β a fight over how a person decides what's true at all.
Two postures
On one side: the reflexes of any threatened authority β drowning a question in noise, sorting people into camps, flooding the zone until no one can tell signal from static.
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