Kayfabe Generations: I Know Why We Hate Each Other

I know WHY we hate each other. Can you feel your world shrinking? 2016 cost half your friends over Trump v Hillary. 2018 cost half again over gender in politics. 2020 cost half again over masks and vaccines. 2024 cost half again over Israel and Palestine. Why is that happening? Why is the world shrinking into warring factions instead of growing into networks of cooperation? How did we end up losing 95% of our friends? How did we end up exclusively having friends that have to perfectly match all of our checkboxes? How did our checkboxes even become inflexible requirements in the first place? I know how. I know why. It's not some grand conspiracy. Once you understand the machine, late-stage media and late-stage culture wars become very predictable. Kayfabe Generations traces the five forces that did it: Narrative as a legitimacy currency that mints through attention and resolves nothing. An incentive engine that pays victims, rescuers, and persecutors an annuity. Coordination fictions maintained by millions who privately doubt them. An algorithm running you through Skinner's reward schedule every second you use it. And the collapse of any reliable connection between claims and objective reality. No conspiracy. Peel back the curtain and find out there is no wizard, just incentives feeding a machine.