PRISM - Political Refraction and Identity Spectrum Model
Someone is running things, and it isn't you. You trust the instincts of ordinary people over the credentials of those who look down on them, and most of what's sold as 'process' looks like a way to keep the powerful in charge. Tear out the gatekeeping — not the country.
essay · feb 2026 · 12 min The Cause of Our Politics Traditional political compasses measure ideology through stated beliefs, but miss the deeper structures — temperament, identity, worldview — that actually produce political behavior. The same policy position can emerge from fundamentally different causal sources, so a meaningful model has to identify the upstream dispositional factors that stay stable even as surface beliefs shift. read on matrices of confusion essay · mar 2026 · 13 min Beneath the Surface of Belief Political beliefs emerge from layered interactions between innate…
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