What we call government, institutions, or corporate leadership has collapsed into a single field of self-preservation, each part feeding and depending on the other until the distinctions blur. The machinery runs, not because it is working, but because nobody within it can stop. Failure is obvious, yet denial is structural—built into the protocols, the language, the rituals of continuity. No admission is possible, because to admit collapse is to collapse, and so the very refusal to acknowledge vulnerability becomes the source of ever-deepening vulnerability. What is playing out most visibly in America is only a concentrated expression of this: a local fracture that could only take shape as a function of global fracture, stupidity rising until it sets the tone, reflecting the broader inability of systems everywhere to face their own failure.
So the whole edifice persists, broken yet self-reinforcing, reproducing its dysfunction through repetition. What once were checks and balances are now recursive loops of justification and spectacle. The system acknowledges crisis only as an opportunity to further entrench itself, incapable of truth because truth would require dismantling its own foundations. In this way, denial is not a symptom but the mechanism of decay, ensuring that what might have been survivable instead becomes terminal. The flaws that once could be hidden can no longer be concealed; they spill out in open view, undeniable yet still unadmitted. That is why it feels both absurd and necessary to write this down: not to persuade, not to be heard, but because naming the fracture is its own act of clarity, even when clarity changes nothing.
Daedelus Kite 