There’s actually a pretty well-defined decay function for organizational lifespans. From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:
Nobody believes that “doing more of what’s failed” will actually fail, because to date it’s only made insiders rich.
Why Is Everything Such a Hot Mess? Let’s summarize the consensus views.
1. Sociopaths are in charge. There are two options: A) the sociopaths gained power through official, legitimate means such as elections or royal bloodlines, or B) the real web of power is hidden from public view and operates behind the screen of official authority.
2. Alternatively, the system itself is sociopathic and so it doesn’t matter who’s in power, as the system elevates sociopaths to power by its very nature.
Yes, there are sociopaths and yes, there are conspiracies. Every corporate price-fixing scheme is a conspiracy that is consciously organized to benefit the few at the expense of the many and protect the conspirators from any negative consequences.
These are the defining traits of every conspiracy: pull hidden strings of power for private gain (more power, more wealth, etc.) and moat the conspirators from any consequences.
In this view, if we replaced the sociopaths who gained power and exposed the conspirators / hidden web of power to consequences, then we could restore legitimacy, stability and functionality to the system.
The alternate view is: since the system itself is sociopathic, the only way to restore legitimacy, stability and functionality is to change the system from the ground up: change the structure of power, oversight, incentives, the whole ball of wax.
In a conspiracy, those organizing the hidden web of power know it’s wrong which is why they must hide it: exposure means ruin because the system still has the capacity to punish fraud, exploitation, abuse of power, etc. When the system itself is illegitimate and dysfunctional, then those rising up the ladder to positions of power don’t see it as wrong; it’s simply BAU–Business As Usual, the way things work and have always worked.
Poop Emoji/Honkler 2028.
How about that stale Nimrod worship New Man workers utopia.
Feel the warmth of the dumpster fire.