2026-04-03
"Analyses of administrative expansion, technocratic governance, and the erosion of public trust have converged toward a common diagnosis: institutions continue to function, yet their capacity to respond meaningfully to criticism appears to be weakening"
"Closure: a structural state in which institutions maintain the forms of responsiveness while losing the substance of correction"
I feel that Martin Geddes might agree.
"This condition is not exceptional. It is increasingly observable across a range of Western institutions, including universities, regulatory bodies, and public administrations, where procedural activity coexists with a growing inability to adjust to feedback"
This problem may not be confined to the UK ...
"The final stage of the process is cognitive closure. At this point, the issue is no longer the attenuation of feedback, but the transformation of how institutions interpret reality itself"
