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Scripted Conflict: How Labels Replace Neighbors and Turn a Nation Into Teams

by Derek Hone
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798277103654
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 158
  • Original Price: GBP 9.7
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 218 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Theory

America doesn't just disagree anymore-we pre-decide who is allowed to disagree. The moment a label lands, the person disappears.

In Scripted Conflict, Derek Hone traces the hidden pipeline that turns neighbors into rival teams. What starts as harmless sorting-street-team pride, school tryouts, birth-year brackets-quietly mutates into moral rosters that decide who counts, who's suspect, and who can be dismissed without listening.

With a broadcaster's eye for how phrases spread, Hone shows how generational tags ("boomer," "Gen Z"), political jerseys ("left," "right," "woke," "evangelical"), and sex-and-status slang degrade dignity and harden tribes. Then he exposes the modern kill-switch label-"conspiracy theorist"-a word that doesn't weigh evidence so much as revoke a person's right to ask.

This isn't a call to abandon discernment. It's a call to abandon contempt as a worldview.

Blending personal story, cultural analysis, and a Christ-shaped ethic of neighbor-love, Scripted Conflict reveals:
- how labels move from convenience to control
- why broadcast and algorithmic systems reward identity war
- how reasonable questions get converted into forbidden people
- what real divides labels hide-and why scapegoating can't heal them
- how to re-humanize opponents without surrendering truth

The book ends where diagnosis must end: with repair. Hone offers a practical "vocabulary of peoplehood"-ways to speak about difference that keep claims testable and people human. You'll find discussion prompts for groups, a short prayer for readers, and clear practices for resisting the scripts in your own home, church, workplace, and feed.

If you're exhausted by team-talk, tired of being reduced, or hungry for a nation that can argue without erasing, Scripted Conflict is a way back to seeing the face before the label-clarity without cruelty, discernment without exile, truth without dehumanization.

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