I watched a video this morning. A woman drove at a man on his way to a peaceful rally in Edmonton. Nearly hit him. Then jumped out of her car and attacked him. Canadians never used to behave like this. We were the polite ones. Disagree at the dinner table, shake hands after. So what changed? Carney keeps telling us we live in "a dangerous and divided world." He's right about the divided part. He just won't admit he's the one dividing it. Why would a leader do that? Because it works. A frightened country doesn't ask about results — it picks a side. Fear is the cheapest form of control ever invented. Scared people vote, and they vote for whoever promises to protect them. And while everyone's fighting each other, nobody's looking too hard at what he's actually doing. Where does it lead? First it's shouting at rallies. Then it's cars and fists, like that video. Every time a leader calls half the country an existential threat, a few people take him literally. Keep going down that road and politics stops being a debate and starts being a fight. Here's what I know from living it: pattern recognition is the highest form of intelligence, and it's a gift from experiencing trauma. You learn to read a room because you had to. What kept you alive then is what sees clearly now. That's why some people are awake and some aren't. Pain teaches you the official story isn't always the true story. Once you've lived that, you check everything. But there's a split. Faced trauma becomes discernment. Unfaced trauma becomes static — every new situation just replays the old one, and you can't think straight through the noise. That's why unresolved trauma makes critical thinking so hard. And that's why governments are the biggest perpetrators of trauma. Whether it's deliberate or just convenient, the effect is the same: a frightened, reactive population doesn't ask hard questions. Hence "a dangerous and divided world." Say it enough times and people stop thinking and start obeying. The dangerous world isn't out there somewhere. It's the one he built right here. It's not his invention it's the oldest playbook there is, and every establishment figure learns it the same way: by watching it work. Fear wins elections. Division fills rallies. Crisis justifies power. You don't need a teacher for that. You just need a system that rewards it every single time.