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politics governance

France Unrest: Bureaucracy, Public Distrust and National Security

Governments invest heavily in defending against foreign interference while neglecting the administrative failures that make societies vulnerable. Bureaucracy has perfected the art of becoming indispensable without necessarily becoming useful.

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cybernetics

how complex institutions preserve failure

Institutions rarely fail because they cannot recognise problems. They fail because recognising problems is not the same as escaping the conditions that reproduce them.