[United States / Disability Policy] - The Excluding Self Reverses Integration to Feed a Phantom of Normalcy
Event Baseline: The Trump administration reversed its stance on integration of people with disabilities, abandoning support for community living. Disability rights advocates report the reversal removes protections for disabled people to live outside institutions.
The administrative self cannot tolerate the presence of the disabled body in shared space. It constructs a category of 'burden' and retreats to institutional segregation, feeding a phantom of orderly society. This is a mechanical failure: the brain identifies with a normalized majority and expels the other. The program runs on the illusion that some bodies are worth less. The result is systemic cruelty disguised as policy. The operating system is corrupted by the belief that separation equals safety.