Cassandras weren’t wrong. They were early.
Systems can’t act on warnings that would require becoming different systems—so they process them, dismiss them, and wait for collapse.
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#OrtegoFramework #CassandraProblem #SystemsThinking #Politics #CollapseMechanisms
Systems can’t act on warnings that would require becoming different systems—so they process them, dismiss them, and wait for collapse.
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
#OrtegoFramework #CassandraProblem #SystemsThinking #Politics #CollapseMechanisms
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
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December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Cassandras weren’t wrong. They were early.
Systems can’t act on warnings that would require becoming different systems—so they process them, dismiss them, and wait for collapse.
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
#OrtegoFramework #CassandraProblem #SystemsThinking #Politics #CollapseMechanisms
Systems can’t act on warnings that would require becoming different systems—so they process them, dismiss them, and wait for collapse.
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
#OrtegoFramework #CassandraProblem #SystemsThinking #Politics #CollapseMechanisms