The Anti-Golem Dependency: A Framework for Repairing the Foundations of Democracy

We are witnessing democracy fail in real time—not through military coups or constitutional crises, but through the systematic collapse of our collective ability to think together. The limbic-cognitive dependencies that override democratic deliberation—recursive feedback loops, threshold collapse, and epistemic automation—reveal the architecture of breakdown and the mathematical pathways to resilience, challenging us to inscribe into democracy the א (one) thing that can return it from מת (death) to אמת (truth): Empathy.The problem is not that people have become irrational, but that normal human cognitive architecture becomes systematically exploitable under modern information conditions. When cognitive resources are depleted, even rational agents predictably shift from evidence-based reasoning to emotion-driven inference through measurable threshold processes. These individual transitions aggregate into group-level epistemic collapse through recursive feedback loops that transform ordinary disagreement into existential threat perception.This paper, Anti-Golem Dependency, is the first of a series of papers to explore a broader model called the Anti-Golem Model. This paper presents a theoretical framework that transforms democratic breakdown from a political problem into an engineering problem. The framework provides mathematical tools for understanding when cognitive systems fail, computational methods for predicting breakdown before it occurs, and systematic approaches for designing interventions that restore epistemic health while preserving democratic pluralism. By making these processes mathematically tractable through recursive hierarchical BART modeling and directed cyclic graph integration, the framework opens the possibility of precision intervention before collapse becomes irreversibleThe mathematical methods, framework, and implementation listed here are Patent Pending. App. #63/811907