Institutional incompetence fuels political opportunism. Social media rewards outrage, nobody accepts responsibility, and democracy inherits the bill.
Institutional incompetence fuels political opportunism. Social media rewards outrage, nobody accepts responsibility, and democracy inherits the bill.
Modern political systems often reward symbolic fluency over systems literacy. The result is a governing class skilled at hierarchy, performance, and institutional ritual, but poorly equipped to understand the complex, recursive problems it claims to manage.
Systems of governance and regulation, insofar as they attempt to secure social, economic, and existential continuity, are structurally compromised. Their primary function is not effective service delivery, but the preservation of administrative and status hierarchies. Continuity of role, office, and influence comes first; the public good follows, if at all. Politics becomes theatre. Institutions become […]