Captured Empires Must Be Reset
ALL political economies drift toward hierarchies. Power concentration is an emergent property of systems rather than a failure of ideology.
Checks and balances assume adversarial incentives stay adversarial. And then collusion happens.
Much of the deliberation on "best systems" completely ignores the fatal flaw plaguing them all.
Historically, resets have been catastrophic: revolutions, wars, economic collapse. Peaceful resets eventually get captured too.
The real challenge isn’t designing a perfect system. It’s discovering a way to reset one before it collapses under its own weight.