Yesterday morning – again – I read an argument on X before coffee. We know better, but we don’t always do better. In it, two people certain they were the villain-identifiers of history. Both missed the point entirely. I thought about how Scripture named what I was looking at a long time ago, and, inspired, I closed the app, chuckled, and proceeded to gut and rearrange my entire bedroom. What I built instead reminded of something, and changed something. This is that story.
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Authenticity Unveiled: Pick a Side (No, Really, That’s the Problem)
I left a comment online. A simple observation about cognitive dissonance. What came back wasn’t conversation — it was tribal defense, projected motives, and the near-total collapse of nuanced thinking. This is what that looks like, why it happens, and what it’s actually costing us.
Authenticity Unveiled: The “Professor” Problem: Tucker, Jiang, and the Art of Demoralization
“Professor” Jiang holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. No advanced degrees. No university professorship. The title is a brand — and borrowed authority, accepted without examination, is one of the oldest manipulation tools there is. Before you argue about what was said, you need to know who said it, and why that label was chosen.
Twin Tree Project 