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  • Introduction: Two Architectures of Exclusion Every society generates collective emotion—anxiety, resentment, humiliation, fear—and every society must find somewhere to put it. The grievance that produced the feeling may be long gone. The feeling remains. It sits there, looking for a discharge point. This is not a moral story. It is a systems story. And the…

  • How the West’s shame‑based security culture became a spectator sport for its rivals. The Ayatollah Eats Popcorn Somewhere in Tehran, an AI‑generated image circulates on Telegram: the Supreme Leader lounges in a velvet armchair, a bowl of popcorn in his lap, eyes fixed on a TV screen titled “Decline of America – Season 23.” The…