SDCT0018: The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that isolated systems move toward a state of disorder. Human minds and groups become isolated systems to varying degrees when they reject their external environments, thus failing to benefit from outer error-correcting information that distinguishes right from wrong regarding thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

There are three external “answer keys” — Reality, Logic, Social Environment (the “RLS environment“). Rejecting these leads to psychosis, irrationality, and antisocial behavior, respectively.

1. The Psychotic Style of small circle minds and politics comes from rejecting a big zone of external Reality. It is characterized by an anti-scientific, anti-factual, delusional, ignorant, post-truth style of thinking. A “tiny bubble” small circle political party rejects most of science and facts, basing policies on perceptions that bear little or no resemblance to external empirical evidence.
2. The Irrational Style of small circle minds and politics comes from rejecting a big zone of external Logic. It is characterized by anti-intellectualism, an acceptance of logical fallacies and a disregard for good mathematical analysis. A tiny bubble political party bases policies on faulty arguments, favoring emotional impulses and gut instincts to sound reasoning.
3. The Antisocial Style of small circle minds and politics comes from rejecting a big zone of external Social considerations. It is characterized by social inconsideration ranging from impoliteness (“political incorrectness”) to criminality and corruption, and is typically fueled by an excess of “fix, fight, and flee” — greed, anger, and fear — arising from the most primitive part of the brain, the limbic system. A tiny bubble political party forms policies that oppose the will and the best interests of the majority of citizens, thus violating social contracts and commitments to the public good.

Occam’s razor states that all things being equal, the simplest explanations are usually the best:

• The simplest possible explanation for psychotic delusions and ignorance, which are breaks from reality, is that the mind has simply become unreceptive toward a big zone of external reality.
• The simplest possible explanation for irrationality, which is a break from logic, is that the mind has simply become unreceptive toward a big zone of external logic.
• The simplest possible explanation for antisocial behavior, which is a break from the norms of orderly society, is that the mind has simply become unreceptive toward a big zone of external social considerations.

At least one theory in psychology needs to contain these simplest possible explanations for psychoticism, ignorance, irrationality, and antisocial behavior. Unless there’s a similarly obvious theory that can outcompete it, Circles Theory should be accepted by the academic world as a necessary school of thought in human psychology, sociology, and political science.

Small circle, tiny bubble political parties, with their big zones of unreceptiveness toward Reality, Logic, and Social information, are largely delusional, ignorant, irrational, and antisocial, and thus, are unfit to lead any nation anywhere on Earth. Tiny bubble minds and politics must be on the losing side of future elections if democracy is to reflect the best of humanity and not the worst.