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The Cognitive Ouroboros

The Cognitive Ouroboros

This is the Cognitive Ouroboros—the serpent consuming its own intellectual tail   How Societies Consume Their Own Intelligence The central argument of this chapter is not merely that ideological pathogens degrade individual cognition—a claim that could be dismissed as an attack on specific political positions. The argument is structural and self-referential: modern societies have constructed environments that systematically degrade the cognitive capacity of their own populations, which in turn reduces the population’s ability to recognize or resist that degradation, which accelerates the process further.  The mechanism operates through four reinforcing loops:   Loop 1: Institutional Capture → Ideological Propagation →...

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