Power without responsibility is not merely a political failure. It is the central pathology of the attention economy: influence is purchased, outrage is amplified, incompetence is rewarded, and when the consequences arrive, everyone points at the voters as though the stage built itself.
When organisations confuse confidence with competence, wealth with wisdom, and power with understanding, incompetence is no longer simply a failure of leadership but becomes one of its preferred production methods.
Ebola reminds us that civilisation may not fail through drama, but through delay, distraction, and a pathogen moving faster than our institutional cadence and cultural expectations.
Daedelus Kite 