The mold always wins. Here's why every system that tries to fix things becomes the thing it was fighting.
Posted by Sahar_the_new_dawn@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 2 comments
Sahar_the_new_dawn@reddit (OP)
Every generation builds something meant to fix the system and ends up becoming part of it. Unions, social programs, political movements, all of them started with genuine intent and got absorbed, defanged, or corrupted by the same power structures they were fighting. This is collapse relevant because it's not a bug in how we organize, it's the feature that keeps existing power intact. The question I'm trying to answer is whether we can build something outside the system entirely rather than inside it where the mold always wins. This is part of a series of open letters thinking through what that actually looks like.
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