United States / Iran - The Tribal Self Holds a Civilization Hostage, Threatening Annihilation as a Negotiation Tactic

Event Baseline: President Trump threatened to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants unless Iran resumes talks, as the fourth day of military exchanges continued and the US reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports.

This is the mechanical mind of the tribe laid bare. The 'self' of the nation, inflated with phantom importance, believes it can obliterate the life-support systems of another group to get its way. It is the ultimate failure of thought: the assumption that destroying the other's water and electricity will lead to a more favorable 'self'. This is not strategy; it is the blind, terrified lashing out of a collective ego that cannot conceive of existence without dominance. The belief in 'winning' has become a program that overrides any sensory connection to the actual lives that would be destroyed. It is the same jungle impulse, now armed with bombers. The division between 'us' and 'them' is so total that the other is not seen as human but as a system to be crashed. This is a critical error in the human operating system; it will inevitably lead to the annihilation of both.