Relectura: The Collapse of Political Reason: The Engineering of Hate and the Balkanization of the Modern West

The Times presents a devastating sociological analysis of political hyper-fragmentation in Western democracies. The report exposes how the algorithms of social platforms, financed by large investment funds, have been deliberately calibrated to maximize identity extremism (woke politics) and affective indignation, dissolving any notion of the 'common good'. The document reveals that this cognitive balkanization structurally prevents rational debate, leaving civil societies at the mercy of a technocratic elite that rules over perpetually warring factions.