Deinfluencing politics: men’s groupthink and violent polarization

In a world governed by digital illusions, we’re not just spectators—we’re prisoners of the platforms. It’s time to rediscover autonomy and reconnect with reality.

Suppose we were to bring Hans Christian Andersen from nineteenth-century Denmark to contemporary North America. He’d be puzzled after seeing how much of his story The Emperor’s New Clothes holds. How collective illusions can distort reality is a matter of wonder.

From "Blindness" (2008), a film based on José Saramago’s novel. As society breaks down, the …