The diagnosis
Why Governance Fails
States rarely fail blindly. They reward the wrong behaviors, and self-destruct, with no ability to correct course.
Politeia
The patterns of failure
Bad incentives can make decent people govern badly.
Existing systems still contain useful protections and practices. The challenge is keeping them while making it easier to correct mistakes and hold people responsible over time in the future.
Short time horizons
Elections, markets, media, and crises push institutions toward short-term wins. Building and maintaining for the long-term doesn't provide instant profit and results, and is discouraged in the capitalist world.
Responsibility becomes dilulted
In the modern capitalist system, it's very easy to create new institutions, agencies, laws, and many other things with ease. However, finding the person responsible when something critical fails is often a difficult thing due to diffusion of responsibility and redirecting blame to a scapegoat. The doctrine counts this redirecting to be a critical design flaw, and in need of immediate audits and reconstruction.
Ethics and profit
Modern states often say it values building for the future, yet it rewards things like extraction and symbolic temporary fixes for the sake of short-term monetary gain. Politeia treats that as a systemic failure, and not only a failure of personal ethics.
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