Dilettante: If governments or secret agencies are sowing chaos—polarization, paranoia, aggression—it must serve a purpose. But what kind of logic needs madness?
Rational: Madness can paralyze resistance. A confused society is easier to steer. When truth is fractured, power becomes the only compass.
Dilettante: Still, a peaceful, docile public is more predictable, more consumable. Madness is volatile. Why risk it?
Rational: Because permanent instability breeds dependence. When reality is untrustworthy, people cling to whatever voice sounds firmest. That voice becomes authority.
Dilettante: So, the goal isn’t control through calm—but control through collapse?
Rational: Exactly. Manufactured chaos redirects desire. You chase enemies instead of questions. You fight shadows instead of systems.
Dilettante: Then the system survives by fragmenting identity. Divide the soul into screams and whispers. Sell each fragment a different cure.
Rational: A brilliant machine, if you see it that way. Madness not as failure—but as design. Not accidental, but engineered.
Dilettante: And we keep dancing on stage, unaware it’s theatre. Actors of crisis. Extras in someone else’s plot.