The Cognitive Void Narrative Error in the Shadow of All Thought

The existence conditions of authoritarianism can be fully explained by twofactors—information asymmetry and the apparatus of violence—and theacceptance, transformation, and erosion of all human narrative can beexplained by supplementing these with three principles: predictive errorminimization, causal inversion, and the false dichotomy fallacy. This paperdevelops a unified theory of narrative phenomena across political,scientific, religious, and philosophical domains using two concepts:acquisition (an event by which a narrative enters cognitive space, varyingin cost) and continuation (the costless state in which a narrative persistswithout judgment). Every narrative has two layers—a label and acontent—and the cognitive void is defined as the gap between them. Thisgap is universal, self-sustaining, and invisible: causal inversion prevents itsinternal detection, and the false dichotomy prevents its externalarticulation. The gap is verified only through action. What is conventionallycalled “authoritarianism“ is the label applied retroactively to this voidwhen it becomes visible in political space; the same structure appears asorthodoxy in science, dogma in religion, and received wisdom inphilosophy. The paper distinguishes between the activist (who strategicallymanages the void in others) and the consumer (who carries labels withoutexamined content), states two formal falsification conditions anddemonstrates their unsatisfiability, and addresses ten counterargumentsfrom political psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind. Thetheory is an abduction; it invites refutation through counterexample andconfirmation through accumulation.