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cybernetics

Malakacene: The Rise of Weaponised Incompetence

Malakacene: the long historical moment in which technologically mediated societies stopped selecting primarily for competence, wisdom, restraint, and institutional responsibility, and instead became increasingly vulnerable to the rapid propagation of spectacle, grievance, aggression, narcissism, and performative certainty masquerading as leadership.

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politics

Catastrophic Incompetence

He is a catastrophe, not only for the world but for himself. The pattern was never subtle. People were simply trained, over time, not to feel the full weight of it. Saturation does that. Repetition does that. A style of conduct that should have disqualified him from serious power was replayed so often that vulgarity […]