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Witch hunts happen when an entrenched bureaucracy is threatened by dissidents inside the bureaucracy. They begin as a purge aimed at the internal dissidents, and then OCD takes over and expands the definition of heretic to infinity, leaving nobody unpurged. Witch hunts typically end when the flame burns the torch-bearers.

It's a lot like an autoimmune disorder. Arthritis or lupus. The initial inflammation is aimed at a real microbe, but the negative feedback mechanisms are absent, so the inflammation runs wild, creating new problems that then induce new inflammation responses. Positive feedback instead of negative feedback.

The underlying problem is that we've destroyed our negative feedback loops, the internal counter-responses that push back on an initial impulse. In 1954 Ike restored the negative feedback, pushing back on the inquisitors from a position of POWER.

(Pushback from the witch caste is worse than useless; it just increases the inflammation.)

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Hi Sasha. I came across a Substack article you might want to look at (in case you haven't already): https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/no-the-revolution-isnt-over

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