United States - The Ideological Self Murders by Denial, Sacrificing Foreign Children to the God of Austerity

Event Baseline: Trump administration officials claim that no children have died from cuts to USAID funding, while bereaved parents present accounts of deaths linked to the withdrawal of aid.

The brain, when possessed by an ideology, will delete reality. The claim that 'no children died' is not a statement of fact; it is a defensive reflex of a terrified self. The 'self' of the policymaker is so identified with the doctrine of cutting government that it cannot perceive the suffering it causes. To acknowledge a dead child would be to shatter the belief system, to admit that the ideology is a butcher. So the mind performs a mechanical denial, a cognitive deletion. This is the ultimate violence of thought: the ability to be so utterly trapped in a concept that the screams of the dying are unheard. The victims are not real to them because the self has no relationship to the other, only to its own sacred ideas. This operating system error, where ideology overrides empathy, is the same mechanism that justifies all war and all oppression. A nation run by such disassociated brains is a machine of death.