• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    That’s the intended effect. People with real power think this way: “where it does work, it’ll work and not bother us with too much initiative and change, and where it doesn’t work, we know exactly what to do, so everything is covered”. Checks and balances and feedbacks and overrides and fallbacks be damned.

    Humans are apes. When an ape gets to rule an empire, it remains an ape and the power kills its ability to judge.