Modern logic dissects identity, objects, and institutions into modular components, treating humans like platforms—interchangeable, upgradable, and regulated only in parts.
This mirrors broader societal shifts: tradition collapses into individualism, the individual into traits.
Restriction (authority) becomes futile when the core is undefined (permanently shifting) and the periphery endlessly adaptable.
Guns, services, genders, ideas—once coherent wholes—are now modular systems evading fixed meaning: the smaller specific can be swapped, decohering the definitional whole into infinite, alternate categories.
Yet meaning arises from synthesis, not fragments. The reductionist paradigm collapses into absurdity when it forgets purpose: a sentence parsed into words loses its sense, as do lives parsed into functions.