Reality Foundations Theory — Threat Map of the Three Regimes

Each regime is a closed Truth · Power · Purpose package. An arrow means the source regime carries a commitment that appears in the target's wiring as an enemy — a condition under which the target's primitive ceases to make sense. Click a regime to isolate what it threatens and what threatens it. Click an arrow for the mechanism.

"They share a vocabulary but not a language." Same input, three runtimes, three incompatible realities — and the arrows are where the incompatibility becomes an attack.

Premodern · Authority/Father/Order Modern · Reason/Individual/Liberty Postmodern · Discourse/Marginalized/Redress item collision — source's ally is target's enemy (§5.4) existential mirror — Power-axis inversion, no shared item (§4.1)

The structural asymmetry the wiring exposes: every item collision runs through Modern. Its own allies — Evidence, Consent, Objectivity, the Individual — are literally the enemies listed in the other two stacks, so Modernism is the only regime in direct item-level conflict with both neighbors at once: attacked as Dogma from the Premodern side and Relativism from the Postmodern side (the two-front assault, §4.3). Premodern and Postmodern never collide on a shared item at all — their war is a mirror: the Father at the apex against the Marginalized at the base (§4.1). Drift, absent maintenance, runs toward Premodernism — the factory default (fragility asymmetry, §4.6).

Select a regime or an arrow to read the threat wiring. Nothing is selected — the whole map is shown.