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the art of turning a room into two rooms.
means the quality of causing disagreement or splitting people into opposing camps, often deliberately.
from from latin dividere, to divide — same root as division, sharing an ancient talent for cutting things clean in half, including friendships.
weaponized versionalgorithms reward it because outrage keeps scrolling
paradoxunites each side internally while splitting the whole
not the same asdebate, which actually seeks resolution