I’ve been developing an Abandonment Theory of institutional evolution. Sometimes an institution in trouble is neither disrupted, nor reformed, but abandoned by all capable of keeping it sustainable, with the relevant ground left fallow to recover for a creative-destruction cycle
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Think of it as Schumpeterian crop rotation. It most often happens when the reserves of desired mutuality and trust among potential participants has been exhausted. The soil (set of human minds) lacks the nutrients to feed the egregore.
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One sign is things like call-out/cancel culture. It is a meeting of an immovable object and an irresistible force. A stubborn resistance to accountability meeting an implacable demand for consequences. There is no resolution.
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Too much detail to get into on twitter. I’m offering a thumbnail sketch, not a full thesis.
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Trace the logic through for a prototypical institution with a lot of call-out/cancel culture like universities, applying it to a broad definition will be unwieldy.
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