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Philosophy

stasis, stasi, status, state

A country does not collapse when it disagrees; it collapses when disagreement becomes the structure that holds it together.

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culture

Academic Stasis

Those artefacts, entities and systems that percolate to ascendance in any particular organisational context tend to be as persistent, as suffocating and as self-interested as they are brittle and prone to catastrophic disassembly when encountering significant environmental perturbation. The diminishing returns on disruptive science are a function of an academic system that has undergone pathological […]