Will There Be a Second Civil War? (EP 125)

The episode examines whether a second American civil war is possible—not through partisan speculation, but by exploring the limits of prediction in complex systems. It argues that while social tension, polarization, and institutional decay resemble past pre-revolutionary eras, modern interdependence and surveillance make open war unlikely. The deeper crisis is epistemic, not military: a collapse in our ability to model or agree on reality itself.