Author: Dissectra
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The Polygraph Problem
Why We’ve Been Looking in the Wrong Place In 1983, a man named Aldrich Ames walked into a polygraph examination at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He was, at that moment, one of the most damaging spies in American history, selling secrets to the Soviets that would lead to the execution of at least ten…
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A Thought Experiment in Political Possibility
The Words We Don’t Choose In the spring of 1968, Enoch Powell stood before an audience in Birmingham and delivered a speech that would define British political discourse on immigration for generations. But there’s a question that almost no one asks about that moment: what if Powell had walked to that podium with the same…
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The Architecture of Alarm
By Dissectra – Neuropolitical forensics What Enoch Powell Understood About Fear There is a photograph, rarely discussed, of Enoch Powell moments before his Birmingham speech in April 1968. His hands are steady. His expression is composed. He does not look like a man about to destroy his political career. He looks like a man who…
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