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You’re using Twitter, which is a service resting on dozens of technical standards tediously worked out by expert committees etc. Running on equipment much of which is the result of tedious institutional work. Yes, Epstein didn’t kill himself. No, you’re not vaulting things right.
The point is, when institutions work right, they do so in boring and quiet ways it is easy to take for granted and radically undervalue. The result is the boring 99% of civilization.
What’s happened is that you’ve decided big failures are what you’re going to judge institutions on. People who think that way end up wanting to burn everything down and then complain when their lives fall apart saying, “well I didn’t mean burn THAT down, that’s obviously good”
It’s a kind of survivorship bias in reverse.
100% agree, I just question 1) the cost-benefit, not only bad calls (Iraq, COVID, Epstein) but also secrets — UFOs taboo for 70 years, now NYT says “jk lol” 2) how deep rabbit hole goes. Do societies only work because institutions manipulate populations? (Bernays thought so)
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