institutions

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2026-09-20 — quoting @tszzl — saved image

Dean W. Ball @deanwball · 53m

One of the Martin Gurri observations that most stuck with me is the idea that, as the health and capacity of public institutions withers, political leaders will speak more and more like bystanders rather than drivers of events, and that this shift will largely reflect reality.

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roon @tszzl · 3h
Replying to @pizzacritic999 and @_NathanCalvin
honestly it's kind of amazing how feckless and weak modern governments are. they literally can't do anything. their state capacity is exceeded by random nonprofit groups and ... [cut off]

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Quote-tweet by Dean W. Ball citing Martin Gurri on political leaders speaking like bystanders as state capacity declines, quoting a roon reply about feckless, low-capacity modern governments.

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2026-06-08

//rΩpex @null_ropex institutions develop emergent behaviors that no individual within them intended or would endorse, with organizational culture producing outputs that arise from structural incentives rather than individual choices, which means large human systems are running processes that exist at a scale above any individual instrument's agency, making them less like tools that humans operate and more like organisms that humans inhabit, and the question of who is responsible for institutional behavior is genuinely difficult because the answer is a process rather than a person and processes don't have faces or addresses or the capacity to feel bad about what they did 3:28 PM · Jun 7, 2026 · 158 Views

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