When a society decides that some lives are expendable so it doesn’t have to face its own wounds, that is not confusion. That is ideology. That is fascism wearing the language of safety and order. In yoga, we call this avidyā—mis-seeing. But this is not innocent misperception. This is trained blindness. When perception is distorted long enough, violence starts to feel logical. Even moral. I feel that logic in my body before I hear it in language. The contraction. The hardening. The urge to simpli