>>14158720Institutionalism has taken over. Right vs left is mainly between having corporate/private institutions or more international/charitable institutions directing government policy and society. At least the right vs left that get to lead. Even with that split nobody's really in the driver's seat, as per pic rel.
We're entering or are in an era of hypernormalisation where political actors have been preserving immediate stability as perhaps their primary goal. Signals indicating there needs to be some rebalancing are overridden in favor of stability today. Finance bots in the stock markets causing flash crashes get rescued. Surprised pikachu face is becoming relevant far too often and on issues of too much importance.
We don't, in general, know/recognize what's important anymore. At the low levels we get the path of least resistance where a bureaucrat decides in a way at no risk to themselves, defined by a policy to limit risk to the organization, and where a number on a financial statement goes up sometime this quarter. At the highest levels we get leaders making poor decisions on erroneous data, often advised or lobbied by an ecosystem of fraud salesmen. Many believe in their own fraud, but that makes it worse, not better.
So much of the system is organized to support fraud sales and focused tested consumer garbage (both are selling a narrative really) so that's what it produces instead of real innovation. If you innovate anyways you learn you have to do all the heavy lifting yourself, like the SawStop guy. It isn't so easily rewarded.
