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@ Laeeth
2025-04-30 11:25:16
A kind of background exhaustion sets in. It's not that people believe the system will fail, but that they no longer believe in the idea that belief is operative. Nothing gets fixed. Everything requires forms, phone calls, weeks of delay. The last competent public administrators retire or migrate. The rest are husks performing their functions to tick boxes. And this dislocation feeds a deeper breakdown: the belief that anything new can emerge from within.
Infrastructure, then, is not what collapses first. What collapses is attention. There are no longer people paying attention in the places that matter. The bridge begins to sag. No one files the report. Or someone does, but the software flags it as anomalous. Or the office responsible has merged with another. Or it’s been automated, but the AI filters out anything not keyworded correctly. Or the file is corrupt. Or the alert is ignored, because last month’s was false. No decision is made. So the bridge fails.