Politically Split

Do we have to be polarized? In some ways, yes.

Apple halves by Erwin from Pixabay

Schismogenesis is a word for polarization. It literally means the creation of a split. The anthropologist Gregory Bateson coined this term in 1935 and discussed it in Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972), and David Breeden wrote about it here. Marcel Mauss wrote about the idea even earlier (you might find it in his Primitive Classification (1902) with…