"I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person." ~ Franz Kafka

We live in an era in which war no longer needs a front line. Its battlefield has become the human mind. Omnipresent propaganda and industrialized, militarized psychological–memetic warfare now function like weapons of mass destruction—silent, precise, and permanent. They do not attack bodies, but perception, memory, emotion, and the ability to distinguish truth from narrative. Our brains—evolutionarily open, social, and trusting—were never designed to defend against techniques of this kind. This is not a continuation of earlier forms of manipulation. It is a qualitative leap. For the first time in human history, we are facing full-scale cybernetic warfare, in which information, imagery, emotion, and algorithms form a closed loop of consciousness control. A war designed, tested, and deployed by concrete centers of cognitive power: think tanks, state structures, corporate narrative laboratories. Its victims are not soldiers—its victims are us. The only real response is not escape, censorship, or naive faith in “objective media.” The only response is to reprogram ourselves. To teach the mind basic mechanisms of defense: recognizing manipulation, maintaining distance from emotional triggers, developing resistance to memetic infection. This is not an intellectual luxury, but a new form of mental hygiene—a prerequisite for preserving agency. We are entering the cybernetic era. Either we learn to defend our own consciousness, or we will be reduced to passive nodes in someone else’s control system.

If not for their faith, how could one survive this? This is what faith becomes in places like Gaza - not dogma, not ritual, but a structure of psychological survival. Where nothing else offers meaning, faith becomes architecture for the soul - a place to remain human when everything around has been reduced to dust and bone. As a non-religious person, to witness this kind of steadfastness might be the only version of religion that makes sense - not the religion of power, politics, or control, not the one that allows believers to censor their own reality, skip the very existence of genocide in Gaza, bypass their humanity. But the kind that gives shattered people just enough dignity to kneel, pray, and rise again. Faith here is not escape. It’s defiance. It’s breath. It’s architecture in the void. Free Palestine 🇵🇸.

Said a civil politician...