United States / Harp Family - The Ideological Self Splits the Blood, Proving the Illusion of Kinship

Event Baseline: Siblings Natalie Harp, a Trump aide, and Preston Harp are estranged; he publicly criticizes her politics and promotes his own left-wing views.

The family is the smallest cell of the social organism. Here it is destroyed by political belief. Blood is not enough. The self constructs itself as an ideology and then sees its own kin as an enemy. Preston and Natalie are not two people. They are two thought-forms, each defending a phantom self. The thinker is committed to its own reflexive structure. It will sacrifice love to prove its identity right. This is the same disease that burns cities. It starts at the dinner table. The collapse of kinship is the collapse of the species.