Politics

The problem isn’t which side of the political argument one takes. The problem is that it remains an argument at all. The very form of endless contestation—framed as positions, sides, and oppositions—sustains itself by never resolving. Institutions then become less about their supposed purpose—education, governance, justice, health—and more about reproducing the argument as their mode of existence. What we see in universities, parliaments, bureaucracies is not the pursuit of knowledge or service but the cultivation of conflict as continuity.

This is why dysfunction persists: because the rift is not a wound to be healed but the very scaffolding of the system. The argument perpetuates the institution, and the institution perpetuates the argument, each feeding the other. To name this cycle is uncomfortable because it reveals that what looks like principled disagreement is often just inertia with a mask on. It is not that one side is wrong and another right; it is that the fight itself has become the reason for being, and in that loop, transformation is impossible.

So, there’s that…