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.
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.
Humanity is caught in a planetary feedback trap. Our technologies, institutions and political systems increasingly reproduce the psychological instability they intend to resolve.
When controversy becomes politically and commercially valuable, incompetence ceases to be merely a failure. Trump’s administration reveals how conflict reproduces authority, even at the expense of human dignity.