Paralysis

The West’s distributed power structure is often less visibly oppressive, but it can still produce entrenched societal paralysis. The system isn’t broken; it’s functioning exactly as designed to absorb dissent, repackage promises, and ensure the returns on crisis flow to the usual suspects. The paralysis isn’t a bug; it’s the system’s equilibrium state. And understanding how it works is the only way for well-meaning politicians to have a better plan to change the structure of the system itself.