STOP
We are committing collective suicide by label.
We have allowed words—empty, arbitrary words—to overwrite reality.
“Republican.” “Democrat.” “Black.” “White.” “Christian.” “Muslim.” “Trans.” “TERF.” “Vaxxed.” “Anti-vaxx.”
Pick any label.
Any at all.
It functions like a virus: it attaches to a human being and replaces them.
You no longer see the person.
You see the label.
And you react to the label with the precision of a programmed machine. Because that’s exactly what the psychological operations and propaganda—whosever they are—condition you to be.
At best, this is trance-induced hallucination, more appropriately, this is lethal psychosis.
You hate people—tens of millions of them—whom you have never met.
You are certain they are evil, subhuman, dangerous.
Your proof?
A headline. A meme. An algorithm that fed you outrage because outrage keeps you scrolling.
You have never sat across a table from them. Never watched them comfort a crying child. Never seen them exhausted after a 12-hour shift, worried about rent.
Never heard them confess their doubts, their regrets, their private shames.
You know nothing real about them.
Yet you are willing to wish them harm, silence, ruin, even death.
All because of a word someone else stuck on them.
You hide it from yourself and enable others to indulge in it calling it righteous anger.
That’s not what this is.
This is a hallucinatory break from reality so complete it would get you institutionalized if it involved any subject other than politics.
There is no meaningful biological divide between human beings.
None. Skin melanin?
A gradient adapted to sunlight.
Facial bone structure?
Minor variations within one species.
Geography of birth?
An accident.
Every other difference is noise.
Below the surface: identical machinery. Same nervous system. Same neurochemistry of fear, love, grief. Same need for belonging, meaning, touch. Same fragile body that bleeds out in minutes.
Every hierarchy erected on these trivial differences is fraud.
Every war fought over them is mass murder enabled by shared delusion.
Every cancellation, every deplatforming, every scream of “Nazi” or “groomer” at a stranger is a refusal to perceive the human standing right in front of you.
Christmas Truce, 1914.
Men who had spent months trying to kill each other climbed out of trenches on Christmas Eve. Sang the same songs. Traded cigarettes. Showed photos of wives, children, mothers. Played soccer in the mud between the corpses. For one day they saw clearly: these are not “enemies.” These are young men exactly like me, terrified and homesick.
Then the officers—safe behind the lines—ordered them back to the slaughter. And they obeyed. They picked up rifles and resumed killing the men they had just embraced. Because the label demanded it.
We are doing the exact same thing, right now.
And we obey just as obediently.
Stop lying to yourself that this is organic.
Stop pretending the hatred is natural.
Who profits when half the population believes the other half is literally evil?
Who profits when we police each other’s language instead of the banks?
When we exhaust ourselves in culture-war trench warfare instead of noticing the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history?
When we demand ideological purity while billionaires buy the political system outright and the planet burns?
Not you. You are poorer, lonelier, angrier, and more afraid than ten years ago.
Not “them.” They are exactly the same: poorer, lonelier, angrier, more afraid.
So who?
The people who sell the labels.
The people who design the algorithms that amplify division.
The people who own the platforms, the media, the parties.
The people who stay rich and untouched while we rip each other apart.
Division is their core product. Hatred is their revenue stream. Your exhaustion is their profit margin.
This is engineered.
And you are participating in it every single time you reduce a human being to their worst tweet, their bumper sticker, their accent, their flag, their skin.
Stop.
Not tomorrow. Not when “they” apologize first. Not after one more election that will change nothing fundamental.
Stop now.
Look at the person.
The label is fiction. The hierarchy is fraud. The division is manufactured.
The human is real.
See them.
Or admit you prefer the delusion because it feels safer than facing how similar we all are—and how thoroughly we’ve been played.
i dunno anthony, this is really dark and wrong in many ways in my opinion... Like the most black pilled article i rade in a while. Who you think you writting to? The narrow minded as you judge in these words? You think they are your readers? Let me guess, that mostly intellectual read your stack so the whole warning sent to the less wise is missing its target audience.
Then let me proove my black pill point with some of these nasty comments here:
1. words that changed reality, like it is suicide right? Well we all changed word many times, not suicide, but greater loss. especialy when the greco-roman latin reversion began. THERE, we really lost all words definition and understanding. Nowaday we traded fake words for wrong words.
2. words are beautifull, without them we cant describe a person, only see the vessel. Where you see label i see teaching, when one can lie, one can also say truth. Words are like AI, a tool without design to threat. Its is us the user who fills them ith bad intention...and that article is such.
3. Your list of words are all polarized divise and conquer word that are low of value. Here is a couple word to even the score in that dark mind who sees black and white as slur of humans instead of colors that represent a vital duality to understand:
Dikaiosyne (Dike) - Logos (words litteraly, not god) - hearth (beautiull! It express a home where family bond around fireplace) its the hearth of Hestia. i can go on but they perfect exemple.
4. All these YOU and bad intent afterward written is agressive and regressive. You write to your audience... you think they wish to hear that? You think that this is truth? This is half of it and the dark side. Not only rich benefits from that system, many poor would do the same in their position, and many other are the laziest people on earth, they lay flat until death and live straight from that wrong world we in. If this world was as rough as before, my guess is their would be less crybaby who lives on society benefits while crying it is not fair. That article you wrote... it goes in that category.
5. All you wrote is not wrong, but narrow view, when you say to everyone stuff like you never did anything good, and you all do everything bad, at the same time judging rightly this hallucinatory life we live in....guess what? you just did the same, spent a whole piece writting about these hallucinations doesnt reduce them, it helps their egregore grow. what a backlash heh?
6. i could go on , almost evry line is filled with that bad intent of polarization by only looking at one black side of the whole colorfull world we have. but i'll stop there, you are right, we are all human, and we dont see the true dept of our brother and sister, we then use foul word and authoritative ways to express it. Like you just did, do you think you brought more serenity or more of that division you wished to erase with that piece? Did we learn a solution by these words you shared, or saw a bad vision of our society, topped with an obligation to STOP, without even understanding the why and how, since you only gave the warning not the solution.
Or admit you prefere the delusion too ;) Thats about your only positive end note lol
Only sentence I value: The label is fiction. The hierarchy is fraud. The division is manufactured.
And here is a ps about the manufactured, i find it fitting:
"P.S. You quoted 'wisewolf.' I know that source. It is a fiction factory for the desperate. If that is a compass you've been using, no wonder you find yourself adrift in a sea you hate. I do not offer you another compass. I offer you the tool to build your own: it is called Kanon—not the hollow 'canon' of authority, but the ancient measure, the ruler to discern truth from false. That is the first step out of the hall of mirrors. The choice of what to measure with it remains, as it must, entirely yours."
here is a true wolf i respect i can share with ya: https://substack.com/@cosmiconion
This answer may look like its opposing you, but in fact we both look for the same thing. Peace and understanding in our society right? Well, how can we understand if we dont talk the same language. If by theses divisions you cleverly mention we are universe apart of the same devotion. How can we grow from there? well lets first wash ourself of the lie that dressed our daily lives.
My friend, all my intent today where done in that wish, not to confront you, but to bring you with me where the peace really is. You are drifting on a sea that you dislike the taste of its water.
No wonder... if its the not-wisewolf who guided you there.