Nobody grows up dreaming of a career shuffling directives around Brussels.
Those jobs always fill with the same type of person: people drawn to power for its own sake, the ones who crave authority without ever answering for it. Bureaucracy doesnโt attract the best. It selects for the worst, then shields them when they inevitably screw up.
Hayek named this in The Road to Serfdom. His chapter โWhy the Worst Get on Topโ spelled out the logic. Unchecked power appeals most to the people least troubled by wielding it.
Mises found the engine underneath. In a market, a bad decision shows up as a loss, and losses remove you. Bureaucratic management faces no such test. Fail to fix a problem and you keep your job, then collect a bigger budget and a larger staff to keep failing with. The incentive runs backwards: waste earns you more, and the machine grows on its own.
Look at the European Union. Ursula von der Leyen presides over the Commission, the body that proposes almost all EU law. No European voter ever put her there. Heads of state handed her the post in a 2019 backroom deal and waved her through parliament. Christine Lagarde runs the European Central Bank, setting monetary policy for more than 340 million people and steering the value of the money in their pockets. She faced no voters for the job either.
You can throw out your national government every few years, but nothing above it moves, the apparatus stays. The unelected keep their offices, their pensions, their power, untouched by the only check ordinary people have.
This is the design, not a flaw in it. The people with the most control over your money and your future are the ones you are not allowed to fire.
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Imagine a world with no more avatars and no more anonymous names. Imagine needing to use your national ID and facial verification before you can do anything on the internet even for something as basic as searching "what is photosynthesis?" or watching a video on YouTube.
It sounds like I'm exaggerating, but this isn't far-fetched. Control systems like this start small, often disguised as simple safety regulations, then everything happens all at once. If we don't take action, it could easily happen because the foundation for this reality is already in the works.
Reject the digital ID! Share this video everywhere to sound the alarm before they make it illegal to even have this conversation. Like and retweet, and let's build this awareness together.
๐๐ผ๐ป'๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ธ, ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ง ๐๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ช !!
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Kissinger called it constructive ambiguity: the intentionally vague language diplomats use in ceasefire/peace agreements so both sides can declare victory at home and save face.
Sounds good, doesnโt it? Well, itโs actually terrible as the failure mode is built in from the start.
The USโIran MoU pledges to end the war โon all fronts, including Lebanonโ and to respect Lebanese sovereignty.
What it never says: that Israel must withdraw from South Lebanon. Israel isnโt even a signatory.
So each side reads the silence to suit itself โ Iran says the US is bound on Israelโs behalf and that non-withdrawal is a breach; Israel says itโs bound by nothing.
Israel paused the war but never committed to leaving the south โ nor, for its own security, should it. I certainly wouldnโt as Commander in Chief.
A memorandum of misunderstanding.
Elon & Trump overshadowed Powell.
Don't take me wrong. I am neutral on politics. I just believe in expertise and qualification. Some are just not supposed to be in politics. Politics and diplomacy are very different than managing a business and day to day operations.
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