Scorched Earth: Mental Models #3

What happens when winning stops being enough—and making the other side lose becomes the new objective?Scorched earth is a strategy of destroying something valuable rather than allowing the enemy to have it. But we do versions of this in our own lives: in competition, ambition, revenge, identity, and even the futures we deliberately make impossible to return to.Episode 121 explores why destruction can feel like power, why getting even can feel like getting something back, and the unsettling similarity between destruction and freedom.